Literary remains death, trauma, and Lu Xun's refusal to mourn /

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Main Author: Cheng, Eileen, 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • The limits of subjectivity: death, trauma, and the refusal to mourn
  • In the name of the father, or the authority of the preface: filiality and the origins of writing
  • Vigil before the shrine of the dead: biographers, subjects, and the failures of transmission
  • Death by applause: eulogizing women
  • The abandoned lover: romance in an age of mechanical reproductions
  • The elusion of paradise: wanderers without a home
  • Mocking the sages: "gathering vetch"
  • A world devoid of enchantment: "mending heaven" and "resurrecting the dead."