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Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions across the Transpacific

Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions across the Transpacific

Iwasaki, Clara

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1621965473
ISBN13: 9781621965473
Publisher: Cambria Pr
Published: Nov 25 2020
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania).

The texts that are examined in this study move in and out of different languages or are multilingual in their origins. Texts and authors do not move randomly; rather, they follow routes shaped by the history of contact between different nations of the transpacific. As these texts move into and out of the Chinese language or become multilingual, they necessarily do not always remain Sinophone. The works of the authors discussed are refracted out of Chinese literature into American, Malaysian, and Japanese literatures and, in some cases, back into Chinese again. Following their paths through multiple languages makes visible the ways that these trajectories are informed by, are arrested by, and bend around historical and geopolitical barriers across the Pacific. To this end, examining the path that these texts from a transpacific perspective allows for the possibility of not only multilingual but multidirectional movement.

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