Imagining India in Modern China : : Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962 / / Gal Gvili.
Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial aggression. Th...
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Gvili, Gal, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Imagining India in Modern China : Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895–1962 / Gal Gvili. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource : 6 b&w figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: South-North- South -- One Unsettling the Violence of Comparison -- Two What Is Rising There in the East? -- Three Folklore, (Il)literacy, and Cyclical Realism -- Four Śakuntalā in China -- Epilogue: After 1962: The Ongoing Literary Work of Mourning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial aggression. These writers imagined India as an alternative to Western imperialism—a Pan-Asian ideal that could help chart an escape route from colonialism and its brutal grasp on body and mind by ushering in a new kind of modernity in Asian terms.Gal Gvili examines how Chinese writers’ image of India shaped the making of a new literature and spurred efforts to achieve literary decolonization. She argues that multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections empowered Chinese literary figures to resist Western imperialism and its legacies through novel forms and genres. However, Gvili demonstrates, the Global North and its authority mediated Chinese visions of Sino-Indian pasts and futures. Often reading Indian literature and thought through English translations, Chinese writers struggled to break free from deeply ingrained imperialist knowledge structures.Imagining India in Modern China traces one of the earliest South-South literary imaginaries: the hopes it inspired, the literary rejuvenation it launched, and the shadow of the North that inescapably haunted it. By unearthing Chinese writers’ endeavors to decolonize literature and thought as well as the indelible marks that imperialism left on their minds, it offers new perspective on the possibilities and limitations of anticolonial movements and South-South solidarity. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110749663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English 9783110993752 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 9783110993738 ZDB-23-DKU print 9780231205702 https://doi.org/10.7312/gvil20570 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231556125 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231556125/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: South-North- South -- One Unsettling the Violence of Comparison -- Two What Is Rising There in the East? -- Three Folklore, (Il)literacy, and Cyclical Realism -- Four Śakuntalā in China -- Epilogue: After 1962: The Ongoing Literary Work of Mourning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: South-North- South -- One Unsettling the Violence of Comparison -- Two What Is Rising There in the East? -- Three Folklore, (Il)literacy, and Cyclical Realism -- Four Śakuntalā in China -- Epilogue: After 1962: The Ongoing Literary Work of Mourning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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