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- Title
Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke's "Child".
- Authors
Xie, Haiyan
- Abstract
The article proposes "literal reading," a theoretical concept from Zhang Longxi, with the intent of resisting the reductionist reading of political implications of contemporary Chinese literature in Anglophone discourse. It mentions Chinese writer Yan Lianke's novel "The Four Books" as a case study, investigating how Yan's portrayal of the main character, the Child has been misread. It also mentions English-language scholarship as a representation of the nation's repressive past.
- Subjects
ZHANG Longxi; CHINESE fiction; CHINESE literature; LIANKE, Yan; FOUR Books, The (Book); ENGLISH language
- Publication
Texas Studies in Literature & Language, 2021, Vol 63, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0040-4691
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/tsll63405