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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jacob Edmond Abstract The term world literature is often used to name the small subset of literary texts that are translated into many languages and circulate globally. One might see the work of the widely translated, globe-trotting poet Bei Dao 北島 (pen name of Zhao Zhenkai 趙振開) as epitomizing...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
... European academia to investigate how reimagining the Orient has enabled Chinese scholars to reorient Chinese literature within the genealogy of world literature. This article thus aims to shed light on the Chinese reconfiguration of Chinese cultural identity in an ongoing negotiation between East and West...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... provide extra insights into the perceptions, expectations, and constrictions of both producing and consuming literature in a global era. Recent debates on world literature have centered mainly on issues of reception and circulation, preferring to define its scope in terms of the reader and the reading...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of the same set of language, but the shifts between them involve actual translations, which in turn would help us gain new insights on the idea of world literature. If the simplified versus complicated characters system is inherent in the modern written Chinese language, and if we follow Benjamin's idea...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Hangping Xu Abstract This article advances a critical account of Chinese internet poetry as performative speech acts by focusing on the rise of Yu Xiuhua as a “crip” figure. Then, discussing Yu's poetry as world literature via translation, it posits a performative framework of translation...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Ecocriticism offers a broader horizon than the concept of world literature. Instead of treating culturally bonded beings and political events of a zeitgeist, ecocriticism sees human history and lifeworlds as only one trajectory among myriad evolutions of species and the earth...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2023
... strategy against the Sinocentric yi 夷 (barbarity) discourse. The article's coda investigates the circulation of this intercultural occurrence through Goethe's Weltliteratur and David Damrosch's renewed concept of world literature, highlighting the failures of both the British Empire's and the Qing Empire's...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Yunte Huang; Hangping Xu Abstract This article, introduction to the special issue, lays out the theoretical groundwork for reading Chinese poetry. Situating critical discussions of Chinese poetry within the larger discourse of world literature, the introduction examines key concepts and concerns...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... also enacts a meta-reflection on the existential condition of literature in cyberspace, where digital technologies make it possible for literary productions to take alternative forms, to roam around, and to dissolve when the exigency of socio-historical circumstances necessitates. The digital world...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by these waves of migration from China throughout Southeast Asia. The essay considers how literature reflects the region's diverse array of Sinitic communities, or “worlds,” and how literary production may be viewed as a process of world making in its own right. Although this special issue covers considerable...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of other trajectories of connectivity and relationality and produce alternative configurations of literary assemblage? How does the delineated space of Chinese literature engage with the unevenness and differentiation of Asia and the world? This method manifests as a constructionist engagement with Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Here, the article rethinks Ba Ren's legacy within a Mahua corpus, and Zeng Huading's fiction within a cross-straits history of labor. This ecological reading of their works also highlights their critique of Mahua's peripheralization within a world economy and global literature. [email protected]...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... groups of concepts: the cultural May Fourth and the political May Fourth, the New Culture movement and the New Literature movement, and the masculine May Fourth and the feminine May Fourth. Liu regards the May Fourth spirit as a complete failure, in terms of six symbolic signs: (1) the mass spiritual...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., the compartmentalized relationship between the nation's four official languages, the marginality of literary spaces and challenges to maintaining literature as a profession, and Southeast Asia's relative obscurity as a world literary center (with Singapore as a small but important connective hub). Taking Yeng Pway...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 150–178.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... It is underground literature, the consolation of the persecuted.” 20 Thompson points out the apocalyptical narrative's healing valence as well as its transforming power. Although social crises are immediate and urgent, the end of the world has yet to come into being. In other words, it is in this imminent...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Problem has only begun to broach the subject of ecology. Because of its unprecedented global popularity, many scholars are instead drawn to discussing The Three-Body Problem as world literature. Some in this field hope this novel will mark an important first step for modern Chinese fiction...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Chinese poetry Angel Island I have a confession to make. In 2019 my friend the poet Mai Mang 麥芒 (also known as Yibing Huang 黃亦兵) announced on Facebook that he had been one of the writers invited by the magazine World Literature Today to nominate a book for its readers' poll on activist...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... If Chinese studies were to let down its linguistic guard, it would further position itself at the vanguard of literary studies. While related fields of study, such as world literature or comparative literature, may, at first blush, appear more methodologically suited to bringing attention to non-Sinitic...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 367–394.
Published: 01 September 2023
... can thus be seen as yet another symptom of the Anglocentrism that permeates globalization by positioning English-speaking countries as the global center 21 —and this is the same hegemony that gives rise to the impetus to study world literature by including texts that originated in a text other than...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and modern Chinese poetry” allows Edmond “to explore the shortcomings of both the wave and network metaphors as they have been used to conceptualize world literature” (92). Edmond has written about Yang Lian and debates about contemporary Chinese poetry as world literature before, in his first monograph...
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