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- Title
Engagement and Integration: The Post-exile Poetics of Bei Dao.
- Authors
Chee Lay Tan
- Abstract
This paper attempts to investigate the post-exile poetics of one of the most internationally renowned contemporary Chinese poets--Bei Dao, who was exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement. His poetry was later to be labeled 'Misty poetry' (Menglongshi)-- emphasising polyvalent imagery and irregular syntax, it engenders a multiplicity of meanings, often leading to interpretational indeterminacy. In this paper, I hope to focus on Bei Dao's post-exile Misty poetry -- including its post-exile poetic imagery and language, to show how it has engaged and integrated Chineseness. I shall attempt to show that the alternative poetics of Bei Dao progresses to a "Borderless" nature in exile and that he portrays his exilic literary identity in even greater hybridity.
- Subjects
BEI Dao, 1949-; POETICS; POETRY (Literary form); POETS; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies, 2014, Vol 2, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
2224-2716
- Publication type
Article