Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature"
Literary Worlding from History to Becoming
Seiten
2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9549-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9549-0 (ISBN)
Xu brings together Deleuze’s philosophy and contemporary Chinese “pure literature” to form an assemblage of theory and practice through which both the obscured edges of a complex literary practice and the future-oriented concepts of a creative philosophy are sharpened with the potentials of their becoming-event brought to light.
Deleuze and Chinese “Pure Literature”: Literary Worlding from History to Becoming probes into the potentialities of a new conception of literature obscured by the critical ambivalence in China’s literary field around the turn of the century. With the help of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, this book articulates many of the latent social, political, and cultural ideas embedded in “pure literature” subsisting as a literary sensibility waiting to be expressed. The specific practices and works of “pure literature” analyzed in the book also serve as instances of what Deleuze’s creative concepts can address, testing and fleshing out their efficacy. Identifying shared problem-solving areas between Deleuze’s philosophy and Chinese “pure literature,” Jian Xu uses them to shed light on the hidden edges of Chinese “pure literature.” Through such Deleuzian theses as the immanence of becoming, the need of the nonhistorical, the virtual real and pure event, the ills of representationalism, becoming-minoritarian, becoming-woman, becoming-imperceptible, pre-individual singularities, and so forth, the book sets about creating a new critical vocabulary to help “pure literature” become self-conscious of its own political creative potentials.
Deleuze and Chinese “Pure Literature”: Literary Worlding from History to Becoming probes into the potentialities of a new conception of literature obscured by the critical ambivalence in China’s literary field around the turn of the century. With the help of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, this book articulates many of the latent social, political, and cultural ideas embedded in “pure literature” subsisting as a literary sensibility waiting to be expressed. The specific practices and works of “pure literature” analyzed in the book also serve as instances of what Deleuze’s creative concepts can address, testing and fleshing out their efficacy. Identifying shared problem-solving areas between Deleuze’s philosophy and Chinese “pure literature,” Jian Xu uses them to shed light on the hidden edges of Chinese “pure literature.” Through such Deleuzian theses as the immanence of becoming, the need of the nonhistorical, the virtual real and pure event, the ills of representationalism, becoming-minoritarian, becoming-woman, becoming-imperceptible, pre-individual singularities, and so forth, the book sets about creating a new critical vocabulary to help “pure literature” become self-conscious of its own political creative potentials.
Jian Xu teaches comparative literature, film studies, and global studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Chapter 1: Introduction: What is “Pure Literature?”
Chapter 2: Appreciating “Pure Literature” through Deleuze
Chapter 3: The Challenge of “Subaltern Literature”
Chapter 4: From History to Becoming
Chapter 5: Yan Lianke: A Realism of the Virtual
Chapter 6: Wang Anyi: The Literary Image of Thought
Chapter 7: Mo Yan: Nonhistorical Becoming as Content of the Form
Chapter 8: Lin Bai: Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Literature
Chapter 9: Conclusion: “Pure Literature” and Control Societies
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Erscheinungsdatum | 17.11.2023 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 237 mm |
Gewicht | 540 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9549-9 / 1498595499 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9549-0 / 9781498595490 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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