Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women's Literature
Imagining Home
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9546-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9546-9 (ISBN)
This book explores the role of literary fantasy in contemporary women’s diasporic narratives to unsettle hegemonic notions of home and to construct their identity. Fantasy in their works plays a subversive function of bringing the unseen culture and unheard voices of the marginalized people.
This book explores the use of literary fantasy in the construction of identity and ‘home’ in contemporary diasporic Chinese women’s literature. It argues that the use of fantasy acts as a way of undermining the power of patriarchy and unsettling fixed notions of home. The idea of home explored in this book relates to complicated struggles to gain a sense of belonging, as experienced by marginalized subjects in constructing their diasporic identities — which can best be understood as unstable, shifting, and shaped by historical conditions and power relations.
Fantasy is seen to operate in the corpus of this book as a literary mode, as defined by Rosemary Jackson. Literary fantasy offers a way to rework ancient myths, fairy tales, ghost stories and legends; it also subverts conventional narratives and challenges the power of patriarchy and other dominant ideologies. Through a critical reading of four diasporic Chinese women authors, namely, Maxine Hong Kingston, Adeline Yen Mah, Ying Chen and Larissa Lai, this book aims to offer critical insights into how their works re-imagine a ‘home’ through literary fantasy which leads beyond nationalist and Orientalist stereotypes; and how essentialist conceptions of diasporic culture are challenged by global geopolitics and cultural interactions.
This book explores the use of literary fantasy in the construction of identity and ‘home’ in contemporary diasporic Chinese women’s literature. It argues that the use of fantasy acts as a way of undermining the power of patriarchy and unsettling fixed notions of home. The idea of home explored in this book relates to complicated struggles to gain a sense of belonging, as experienced by marginalized subjects in constructing their diasporic identities — which can best be understood as unstable, shifting, and shaped by historical conditions and power relations.
Fantasy is seen to operate in the corpus of this book as a literary mode, as defined by Rosemary Jackson. Literary fantasy offers a way to rework ancient myths, fairy tales, ghost stories and legends; it also subverts conventional narratives and challenges the power of patriarchy and other dominant ideologies. Through a critical reading of four diasporic Chinese women authors, namely, Maxine Hong Kingston, Adeline Yen Mah, Ying Chen and Larissa Lai, this book aims to offer critical insights into how their works re-imagine a ‘home’ through literary fantasy which leads beyond nationalist and Orientalist stereotypes; and how essentialist conceptions of diasporic culture are challenged by global geopolitics and cultural interactions.
Fang Tang is associate professor in the department of literature and art at Yangtze University.
Introduction
Chapter One: The Articulation of Silences: Empowering Ghosts and Rewriting Myths in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
Chapter Two: Homing Desire and the Use of Cinderella Tales in Adeline Yen Mah’s Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots
Chapter Three: Fantasizing the Mother-Daughter Relationship, Cannibalism and Posthumous Narratives in Ying Chen’s Ingratitude
Chapter Four: Crossing Boundaries: the Reconstruction of Queering History and Folktales in Larissa Lai’s When Fox is a Thousand
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9546-4 / 1498595464 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9546-9 / 9781498595469 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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