Thoughts on Politics and Critical Paradigms in Modern Chinese Literature Studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6008335
AutoresMichael S Duke (University of British Columbia, autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas41-70
Fecha de publicación1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaModern China (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/009770049301900104
OpenAlexW1986577765
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas26

Professor Liu Kang's Politics, Critical Paradigms: Reflections on Modern Chinese Literature Studies (1993 [this issue]; all quoted text refers to Liu unless otherwise specified) is a stimulating discussion that raises many important questions concerning the state of the field today. Liu's laudable goal is to bring the field of modern Chinese literature studies into the global debate on postmodern culture and literature. On this account, perhaps, his narrative seems to have certain affinities with postmodernist metafiction in its refusal to state a coherent theme, its inscribing and then undermining of certain values so the reader never knows exactly what the author thinks (author being a dead category anyway, killed by Barthe in imitation of Nietzsche killing God), and its eschewal of closure. After making a number of assertions about the adequacy or inadequacy of various approaches to the study of modem Chinese literature in the United States, Liu goes on to what appears to be a generally positive assessment of one Chinese literary theorist and a number of largely unnamed avant-garde literary critics, and ends in a series of unanswered questions. Like all serious students and scholars, Liu has engaged a great deal of intellectual and moral passion in the article. He has also tried to be fair in handing out praise and blame to various well-known scholars in the field. They are either praised or blamed (sometimes both) for

Aesthetics · Blame · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Praise · Sociology · State (computer science · Theme (computing · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology