Territorializing Manchuria : the transnational frontier and literatures of East Asia /

Territorializing Manchuria : the transnational frontier and literatures of East Asia /

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Author / Creator:	Xie, Miya Qiong, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2023.
Description:	xv, 377 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Harvard East Asian monographs; 458 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 458.
Subject:	Xiao, Hong, -- 1911-1942. Yŏm, Sang-sŏp, -- 1897-1963. Abe, Kōbō, -- 1924-1993. Zhong, Lihe, -- 1915-1960. Abe, Kōbō, -- 1924-1993. Xiao, Hong, -- 1911-1942. Yŏm, Sang-sŏp, -- 1897-1963. Zhong, Lihe, -- 1915-1960. Comparative literature. East Asian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Nationalism in literature. Transnationalism in literature. Boundaries in literature. Boundaries in literature. Comparative literature. East Asian literature. Nationalism in literature. Transnationalism in literature. Manchuria (China) -- History -- 20th century. China -- Manchuria. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12983206

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ISBN:	9780674278301 0674278305
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kōbō and Zhong Lihe-these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensively in their literary works. Now China's Northeast but a contested frontier in the first half of the twentieth century, Manchuria has inspired writers from all over East Asia to claim it as their own, employing novel themes and forms for engaging nation and empire in modern literature. Many of these works have been canonized as quintessential examples of national or nationalist literature--even though they also problematize the imagined boundedness and homogeneity of nation and national literature at its core. Through the theoretical lens of literary territorialization, Miya Xie reconceptualizes modern Manchuria as a critical site for making and unmaking national literatures in East Asia. Xie ventures into hitherto uncharted territory by comparing East Asian literatures in three different languages and analyzing their close connections in the transnational frontier. By revealing how writers of different nationalities constantly enlisted transnational elements within a nation-centered body of literature, Territorializing Manchuria uncovers a history of literary co-formation at the very site of division and may offer insights for future reconciliation in the region"--
Standard no.:	40031588684

Table of Contents:

The Literature of Manchuria: An Overview
Making Manchuria Chinese:
Chinese Northeastern Writers Revisited
Literary Territorialization through Linguistic Hybridity:
The Manchukuo Chinese Writer Gu Ding and His Novel
New Life
A National Space on the Extraterritorial Frontier: Korean
Literature of Manchuria through the Lens of Translation
The Frontier Legacy in Postwar Japanese Literature:
Abe Kōbō's Manchurian Past and His Border Thoughts
Conclusion: From Manchuria to Taiwan:
A Cross-Frontier Perspective on Zhong Lihe's Literature.