Collecting the Self : Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China /
Chiang, Sing-chen Lydia,
Collecting the Self : Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China / Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China Sing-chen Lydia Chiang. - 1 online resource. - Sinica Leidensia ; 67 Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 . - Sinica Leidensia ; 67. Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9789047414841 9789004142039
10.1163/9789047414841 DOI
Grotesque in literature.
Horror tales, Chinese--History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Short stories, Chinese--History and criticism.
PL2439
895.1/30873809048
Collecting the Self : Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China / Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China Sing-chen Lydia Chiang. - 1 online resource. - Sinica Leidensia ; 67 Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 . - Sinica Leidensia ; 67. Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9789047414841 9789004142039
10.1163/9789047414841 DOI
Grotesque in literature.
Horror tales, Chinese--History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Short stories, Chinese--History and criticism.
PL2439
895.1/30873809048