...Keru Cai Abstract This article posits modern Chinese realism as heteromodal, capable of encompassing many modes of narration from a plurality of literary movements. Heteromodality results from the heterochronic Chinese importation of Western literary history, the simultaneous reception of what were...

... a book on Chinese queer cultures. © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 The Peripheral Realism of Two Chinas Petrus Liu The Realism of Two Chinas rom the outset realism in the Chinese context has been consistently Flinked to the critique of capitalism. Rooted in the radical...

... Congwen. By David Derwei Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xix + 367 PP. $45.00- David Wang’s book impressively delineates a specifically literary space in May Fourth (1917-37) China. Like the late Marston Anderson’s Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Rmolutionary Pen’od...

... concern with the fate of the Chinese nation and his professed intention to be its spiritual physician, critical opinion holds that his writings are primarily political and cultural in thematics and realistic in formal representation. The scholarly consensus that he is a master of critical realism remains...

...Yoon Sun Lee This essay examines how the concept of realism applies to minor literature by retrieving and expanding Georg Lukács’s understanding of realism as the deliberate negation of modernism. In Lukács’s view, realism distinctively expresses an aspiration to totality. Its most important device...

... in the unmistakable mode of “plain,” down-to-earth realism. When Yu Hua began to write fiction in 1986, he set himself the task of scandal- izing conventional expectations and, ultimately, subverting the values and rationales that inhabit the Chinese language. In only five years, however, he had given up avant...

... than their American and European colleagues at keeping social and political reality at a distance. The literary background of Chinese postmodernism is as multifac- eted as China’s history of the last hundred years. First, there is socialist realism, including some Russian novels considered...

... by the state for decades, seriously challenged the dominance of realism, though its practitioners did not necessarily seek to assert its superiority, much less to displace realism altogether.14 The corollary to Chinese literature was the emergence of an eclectic and expansive vision of literature...

... engaged the ideas raised in “Peripheral Realisms.” Scholars of the Argentine, Filipino, German, South African, and Zimbabwean novel, of Chinese and Indian memoir, of Hollywood film, of Hong Kong legal discourse, of Korean modernism, of Arab-Jewish poetics, and of Russian painting have revised our core...

...Julie Candler Hayes Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe . By David Porter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii + 296 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford...

...Catriona MacLeod Goethe As Woman: The Undoing of Literature . By Benjamin Bennett. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 274 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews . By Irene Tucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xiv + 311 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford, Calif...

...Robert E. Abrams Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival . By Clare L. Spark. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press,2001. x + 730 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter...

...Cyrena N. Pondrom Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry,1908-1934 . By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 238 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe...

...William Flesch Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities . By Kevin Jackson. New York: Dunne, 2000. xxii + 310 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press...

... Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 2020 What Is and Isn’t Changing: Critique after Postcritique . Edited by Eleni Coundouriotis and Lauren M. E. Goodlad 2019 Literary History after the Nation? Edited by Peter Kalliney 2018 Chinese Encounters with Western...

... in the years ahead. The doctrine of socialist realism, proclaimed at the First Congress, was interpreted in such a way as to ban the pres- entation of negative leading characters in Soviet literature. This ban was imposed, not only on the literatures of the Slavic and non-Slavic Soviet minorities...

... self and to dramatize the impossibility of speaking for the under- class, and then in the Maoist period to forge the language of socialist realism, to thematize class struggle, and to glorify socialist revolution. In the tradition of modern Chinese writing pioneered by Lu Xun, underclass...

... the West in translation. Introduced more or less simultaneously with nineteenth-century Western realism and Romanticism leavened with traditional Chinese literary and cultural conventions, Chinese writers throughout the twentieth century wavered uncomfortably between the imitation of reality...

...- system encoded into the African social novel. Along similar lines, Liu challenges an ossi ed view of contemporary Chinese ction as divided into a residually socialist realism associated with the People’s Republic of China and a progres- sive, diasporic modernism associated with Taiwan (or Hong...