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- Title
Gao Xingjian: Fiction and Forbidden Memory.
- Authors
Yinde Zhang
- Abstract
From Soul Mountain to One Man's Bible, Gao Xingjian's fiction is committed to a labour of transgressive remembering: excavating minority heritages eclipsed by the dominant culture, protecting individual memory from established historiography, and sounding the dark areas of personal memory, less to indulge in "repentance" than to examine identity. The writing of memory, thanks to fictionalisation, thus comes to resemble an exorcism that makes it possible to defy prohibitions by casting out external and internal demons and by imposing the existential prescription against normative judgement.
- Subjects
CHINA; CHINESE literature; GAO, Xingjian, 1940-; SOUL Mountain (Book); ONE Man's Bible (Book : Gao Xingjian); FICTION; MODERN literature; CULTURAL property; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
China Perspectives, 2010, Vol 2010, Issue 2, p25
- ISSN
2070-3449
- Publication type
Article