TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chiang,Sing-chen Lydia
TI  - Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China 
T2  - Sinica Leidensia
SN  - 9789047414841
AV  - PL2439 
U1  - 895.1/30873809048 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Grotesque in literature
KW  - Horror tales, Chinese
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Short stories, Chinese
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047414841
ER  -