Asian Literary Voices
From Marginal to Mainstream
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
The essays in this collection give voice to a wide range of artists and writers from China, Japan, Korea, and India who to this day remain largely unknown or poorly understood in literary circles around the world. Contributors from Asia, Europe, and the United States cover a wide range of topics from a vast expanse of time, from Sanskrit poetry dating back over a thousand years to Chinese fiction of the twenty-first century.
Introduction: Asian Literary Voices
Philip F. Williams
1. Korean and Japanese Portraits of Ideal Lovers
Susan Lee
2. Yamada Bimyō’s “Musashino” and the Development of Early Meiji Historical Fiction
Daniel J. Sullivan
3. From Atomized to Networked: Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Twentieth-century Chinese Narrative
Philip F. Williams
4. Sex for Sex’s Sake? The “Genital Writings” of the Chinese Bad-Girl Writers
Shelley W. Chan
5. In and Out of Home: Bing Xin Recontextualized
Mao Chen
6. From Enlightenment to Sinology: Early European Suggestions on How to Learn Chinese, 1770-1840
Georg Lehner
7. Chinese Avant-Garde Theater: New Trends in Chinese Experimental Drama near the Close of the Twentieth Century
Izabella Łabędzka
8. Malraux’s Hope: Allegory and the Voices of Silence
William D. Melaney
9. Reception, Reappropriation, and Reinvention: Chinese Vernacular Fiction and Elite Women’s Reading Practices in Late Chosǒn Korea
Sohyeon Park
10. Some Women Writers and their Works in Classical Sanskrit Literature: A Reinterpretation
Supriya Banik Pal
About the Contributors
Index
Art: Art Criticism
Literature and Literary Criticism: Asian Languages
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