Collecting The Self: Body And Identity In Strange Tale Collections Of Late Imperial ChinaBRILL, 2005 - 284 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Introduction Theorizing Chinese Strange Tale Collections | 1 |
Theoretical Foundation | 4 |
Methodological Issues | 7 |
Thematic Parameters | 9 |
Generic Traditions | 10 |
Zhiguai | 12 |
Zhiren | 17 |
Chuanqi | 18 |
Textual and Commentary Histories of Liaozhai | 68 |
Horror Fiction and the Recursive Structure of Liaozhai zhiyi | 80 |
The Uncanny in Liaozhai zhiyi | 83 |
The Deconstructed Male Gaze and MingQing Literati Anxiety | 86 |
The Recurrent Nightmare | 89 |
Horrors Within the Patriarchal Order | 97 |
The Haunted Home as the Haunted Mind | 113 |
The Grotesque Male Body and Ambiguous Masculine Identity 1 19 | 119 |
Xiaoshuo and Baiguan | 26 |
Biji and Xiaoshuo | 27 |
Historical Context | 28 |
Culture and Collecting During the Late Qianlong Reign | 35 |
Yuan Mei | 38 |
Ji Yun | 41 |
Literary and Artistic Trends | 45 |
Case Studies | 51 |
Outline of Following Chapters | 56 |
The Uncanny and Boundaries of the Self in Liaozhai zhiyi | 60 |
The Problem | 62 |
The Terrified Exorcist | 122 |
Conclusion | 123 |
Body Power and Fantastic Discourse | 127 |
The Grotesque Body and Literati Identities | 157 |
Creation Transmission and the Ghostly Poet | 197 |
Theoretical Implications | 244 |
The Merchants Son by Pu Songling | 252 |
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