Tales of Futures Past

Tales of Futures Past

Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China

by Paola Iovene

225 pages· 2014· ISBN 9780804789370
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This book investigates how emotions and ideas about the future have shaped diverse genres, texts, and editorial practices of Chinese literature from the mid-twentieth century to 2011, introducing the concept of "anticipation" as a lens to reconsider the interdependence of aesthetics and politics in Chinese socialist and postsocialist literary modernity.

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