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Visions in Exile. Inroads to a 'Counter-System' of Contemporary Chinese Literature

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Ph.d.-projektet undersøger konstruktioner af national identitet i kinesisk samtidslitteratur, ved at fokusere på spændingen imellem forfattere, der arbejder henholdsvist indenfor eller udenfor det officielle litterære system i Folkerepublikken Kina. Projektet følger dette systems forestillede grænser, ved at læse de diskurser, der forsøger at opretholde systemet, ved siden af dem, der prøver at overskride eller omstyrte det. Undersøgelse af den historiske konstruktion af begrebet 'national litteratur' i Kina i det tidlige tyvende århundrede afslører, at denne var betinget at en ide om 'verdenslitteratur,' der rakte videre end den konventionelle teoretiske dualisme imellem 'Øst' og 'Vest,' dog uden at vriste sig fuldkommen fri af dennes symbolske stigmatisering. Fra omkring 1930erne, ses desuden tilsynekomsten af en gruppe 'internationale' kinesiske forfattere, der kan karakteriseres ved eksil, oversættelse, og fra 1949, litterær og politisk modstand overfor systemet under opbyggelse på fastlandet. Perioden fra begyndelsen af 1980erne kan ses som central i etableringen af et 'modsystem,' dels som følge at øget internationalisering af litteratur (og det sociale rum generelt) i Kina, og dels på grund af en stigende udvandring af forfattere, der ofte vælger at tilbring længere perioder i udlandet, og somme tider bosætte sig permanent i eksil. Projektet undersøger disse fysiske of forestillede rejser, samt deres indflydelse på den globale kulturpolitiske balance.
The study addresses issues of national identity in contemporary Chinese literature by focusing on the tension between writers currently working either inside or outside the official literary system of the PRC. It searches out the imaginative boundaries to this system by reading the discourses that work to maintain it, next to those that try to transcend or overturn it. By following the historical construction of a 'national literature' in China in the early twentieth century, it is argued that the concept was conditioned by an idea of 'world literature' that went beyond the conventional theoretical bifurcation of 'Eastern' and 'Western' influences but nonetheless retained much of the symbolic stigmatisation associated with these images of differentiation. Beginning sometime in the 1930s, there can furthermore be seen the emergence of a group of 'international' Chinese writers, characterised by exile, translation, and from 1949, literary and political opposition to the system under construction on the mainland. The period from the early to late 1980s provides a watershed in the inauguration of the 'counter-system,' in that it witnessed, on the one hand, an unprecedented internationalisation of literature (and social space in general) at home, and on the other, a rising outpour of writers, moving physically abroad, and sometimes remaining for extended periods or settling down as exiles. The study records these physical and imaginary journeys as well as their various implications to the balance in contemporary global cultural politics.

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tel-00763799 , version 1 (11-12-2012)

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Peter Damgaard. Visions in Exile. Inroads to a 'Counter-System' of Contemporary Chinese Literature. Literature. University of Copenhagen. Faculty of Humanities, 2012. English. ⟨NNT : ⟩. ⟨tel-00763799⟩
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