Haunting in Chinese-Australian writing / Xiao Xiong.
2023
PN56.S8 X56 2023
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Title
Haunting in Chinese-Australian writing / Xiao Xiong.
Author
Xiong, Xiao.
ISBN
9789819930647 (electronic bk.)
9819930642 (electronic bk.)
9819930634
9789819930630
9819930642 (electronic bk.)
9819930634
9789819930630
Imprint
Singapore : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (154 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-99-3064-7 doi
Call Number
PN56.S8 X56 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.93375
Summary
This book examines haunting in terms of trauma, languaging, and the supernatural in works by Chinese Australian writers born in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. It goes beyond the conventional focus on identity issues in the analysis of diasporic writing, considering how the memory of past trauma is triggered by abusive systems of power in the present. The author unpacks how trauma also brings past violence to haunt the present. This book considers how different Chinese diasporic communities present a dynamic and multiple state through partial erasure between different Chinese subcultures and other cultures. Showing the supernatural as a social and cultural product, this book elucidates how haunting as the supernatural refers to the coexistence of, and the competition between, different cultures and powers. It takes a wide-ranging view of different diasporic communities under the banner Chinese, a term that refers not only to Chinese nationals in terms of citizenship, but also to the Chinese diaspora in terms of ancestry, and Chinese culture more generally. In analysing haunting in texts, the author positions Chinese culture as in a constant state of flux. It is relevant to literary scholars and students with interests in Australian literature, Chinese and Southeast Asian migration writing, and those with an interest in the Gothic and postcolonial traditions.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Haunting as Trauma in Birds of Passage and Her Fathers Daughter
Chapter 2
Haunting as Languaging in Ouyang Yus The English Class and Selected Poetry
Chapter 3
Haunting as the Supernatural in The Crocodile Fury and Playing Madame Mao.
Haunting as Trauma in Birds of Passage and Her Fathers Daughter
Chapter 2
Haunting as Languaging in Ouyang Yus The English Class and Selected Poetry
Chapter 3
Haunting as the Supernatural in The Crocodile Fury and Playing Madame Mao.