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Collecting the Self
Sing-chen Lydia Chiang
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Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
出版BRILL, 2021-12-28
主題History / Europe / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Human GeographySocial Science / Regional Studies
ISBN90474148459789047414841
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tyJXEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.