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Collecting the Self

By Chiang, Sing-Chen Lydia

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Collecting the Self

By Chiang, Sing-Chen Lydia

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
286
Release Date:
2004-11-01
Publication Date:
2004-11-30
Publisher:
Brill
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9004142037
ISBN13:
9789004142039
Weight:
667 g
Height:
165 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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