Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 Histories of the Elusive Self
Description
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModern19th CenturyFictionSemiotics & Theory20th CenturyAsianSocial ScienceLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2013Book
Author(s)Marjorie Dryburgh
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137368560
LanguageEnglish
