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Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
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Artikel-Nr:
9789004142039
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2004
Seiten:
294
Autor:
Sing-Chen Lydia Chiang
Gewicht:
667 g
Format:
244x165x24 mm
Serie:
67, Sinica Leidensia
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Sing-chen Lydia Chiang, Ph.D. (1997) in Chinese, Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Tufts University.
Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and other perceived "anomalies" to accepted cosmic and social norms. As such, this body of literature is a rich repository of Chinese myths, folklore, and unofficial "histories." These collections also reflect Chinese attitudes towards normalcy and strangeness, perceptions of civilization and barbarism, and fantasies about self and other.Inspired in part by Freud's theory of the uncanny, this book explores the emotive subtexts of late imperial strange tale collections to consider what these stories tell us about suppressed cultural anxieties, the construction of gender, and authorial self-identity.