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Genre Transgressions and (Trans)Nationalism in Chinese Science Fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Genre Transgressions and (Trans)Nationalism in Chinese Science Fiction./
Author:	Healey, Cara Michelle.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	198 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International78-10A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10253113
ISBN:	9781369713909

Genre Transgressions and (Trans)Nationalism in Chinese Science Fiction.
Healey, Cara Michelle.

Genre Transgressions and (Trans)Nationalism in Chinese Science Fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 198 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

In August 2015, Liu Cixin became the first Chinese writer to win the Hugo Award, one of the most prestigious science fiction literary prizes, demonstrating the growing international popularity of Chinese science fiction among fans and critics alike. Science fiction was introduced to China in the first decades of the twentieth century through translations of Western works but was long considered a mere tool of science popularization. Over the past two decades, the genre has developed into a new lens through which to examine the Chinese-speaking world's present-day political and social realities and their potential consequences for our planet's future. However, it has received little scholarly attention until now. The field of Chinese studies has emphasized critical realism as the dominant mode of modern and contemporary cultural production, while the field of science fiction studies has focused on Anglophone texts, taking Western critical theory as its methodological foundation. Recent analyses of Chinese science fiction examine it from a national framework, limiting our comprehensive understanding of science fiction's place within transnational Chinese language and cultural traditions and within the context of global science fiction. My dissertation addresses this gap by taking a comparative approach to contemporary science fiction from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It demonstrates that these literary and cinematic works of Chinese-language science fiction maintain continuity with pre-modern and modern Chinese literature, while at the same time upholding and subverting conventions of Western science fiction, thereby estranging local Chinese literary traditions to revitalize their relevance in the current globalized era. My analysis draws on studies of the fantastic in pre-modern Chinese literature, modern and contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese realism, Western science fiction subgenres, and other non-realist modes of fiction, such as magical realism and utopia. In addition to an introduction and conclusion, the dissertation is organized thematically into four chapters focusing on themes of encounters with the Other, information degradation, ecological destruction, and China's rise. Throughout the dissertation, I argue that a bricolage of non-realist elements and genre conventions emphasize the societal significance of these themes in ways that resonate with local identities, national mythologies, and transnational cultural communities. I expect this research to define the thematic and aesthetic qualities of Chinese-language science fiction as both converging with and diverging from mainstream Chinese literary traditions and Western science fiction trends. In this way, the project breaks down dichotomies between seemingly conflicting categories like "realist" and "speculative", "pre-modern" and "modern", and "Chinese/Sinophone" and "Western", expanding our understanding of both transnational Chinese literature and global science fiction.

ISBN: 9781369713909Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.
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China

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