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The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters

The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters

O'Malley-Sutton, Simone

Hardcover

Series: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English

Literary CriticismChinese History

ISBN10: 9819952689
ISBN13: 9789819952687
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 7 2023
Pages: 425
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book examines how the early twentieth-century Irish Renaissance (Irish Literary Revival) inspired the Chinese Renaissance (the May Fourth generation) of writers to make agentic choices and translingual exchanges. It sheds a new light on May Fourth and on the Irish Renaissance by establishing that the Irish Literary Revival (1900-1922) provided an alternative decolonizing model of resistance for the Chinese Renaissance to that provided by the western imperial center. The book also argues that Chinese May Fourth intellectuals translated Irish Revivalist plays by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Seán O'Casey and Synge and that Chinese peasants performed these plays throughout China during the 1920s and 1930s as a form of anti-imperial resistance. Yet this literary exchange was not simply going one way, since Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge and O'Casey were also influenced by Chinese developments in literature and politics. Therefore this was a reciprocal encounter based on the circulation of Anti-colonial ideals and mutual transformation.

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