Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora / Jing Tsu.
2011
PL3033 ǂb T78 2010eb
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Title
Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora / Jing Tsu.
Author
Tsu, Jing, author.
ISBN
9780674060548
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (320 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674060548 doi
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PL3033 ǂb T78 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
895.1/093529951
Summary
In this original and interdisciplinary work, Jing Tsu advances the notion of "literary governance" as a way of understanding literary dynamics and production on multiple scales: local, national, global. "Literary governance," like political governance, is an exercise of power, but in a "softer" way - it begins with language, rather than governments. In a globalizing world characterized by many diasporas competing for recognition, the global Chinese community has increasingly come to feel the necessity of a "national language," standardized and privileging its native speakers. As the national language gains power within the diasporic community, members of the diaspora become aware of themselves as a community. Eventually, they move from the internal state of awakened identity to being recognized as a community, and finally exercising power as a community. But this hegemony of the "national language" is constantly being challenged by different, nonstandard language uses, including various Chinese dialects, multiple registers, contested alphabet usage, and Chinese men and women who write in foreign languages. "Literary governance" reflects both the consensus-building power and the inherent divisiveness of these debates about language and is useful as a comparative model for thinking about not only Sinophone, Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanophone literatures, but also any literary field that is currently expanding beyond the national.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Literary Governance
2. Chinese Lessons
3. Lin Yutang's Typewriter
4. Bilingual Loyalty
5. Chen Jitong's "World Literature"
6. The Missing Script of Taiwan
7. Look- Alikes and Bad Relations
8. The Elephant in the Room
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Index
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Literary Governance
2. Chinese Lessons
3. Lin Yutang's Typewriter
4. Bilingual Loyalty
5. Chen Jitong's "World Literature"
6. The Missing Script of Taiwan
7. Look- Alikes and Bad Relations
8. The Elephant in the Room
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Index