Seeing Others
Ethics of Ghost Narrative in Sinophone Hong Kong Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19520869 |
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| Authors | Di-kai Chao (0000-0002-5719-282X), Riccardo Moratto (0000-0002-2780-6472) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-83 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1520-9857 • E-ISSN: 2328-966X |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/mclc.2024.0048 |
| OpenAlex | W4401272031 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Inspired by the Sinophone discourse on translocality, this paper analyzes Mak Shu Kin's novella “Slow and Long Night” ( Manman changye, 2019), Tse Hiu-Hung's short story “The Umbrellaless Ghost” ( Wu zhe gui, 2015), and Tse's novella “The City of Dissipating Streams” ( Shi shui liu cheng, 2020). We analyze how ghosts in Mak's text become symbolic of the characters trying to survive in a translocal context, while in Tse's work, they express the significance of a community through différance and magical realism. We argue that these texts represent a new generation of Hong Kong writers who, through Hong Kong's Sinophone “situatedness,” resort to ghost narratives to respond to an ethical commitment to the Other and a sense of community, thus enabling Hong Kong literature studies to move beyond the framework of “déjà disparu” or “anti-incorporation.”
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Narrative · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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