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With the inclusion of twelve original articles by established and emerging international scholars, this volume offers critical reading of literary and cinematic texts produced in China and Sinophone communities between the 1950s and 2010s. The articles portray the lineage and mutations of the Chinese Bildungsroman, providing insights into the tensions between individual and society; nation and the world; and the multiple social, ecological, and virtual realities of recent decades. Concerned with how coming-of-age narratives have persistently returned and evolved over time, the book addresses themes such as family and social change; gender, class, and generational divides, local/global politics, and the ecological and posthuman turns in Chinese/Sinophone culture. It offers a fresh look on how the transnational and transgenerational journeys of Bildungsroman and coming-of-age narratives continuously transform and reinvigorate generic conventions, to explore adolescence as a formative social force and aesthetic experience in Chinese/Sinophone literature and film.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Romanizations and Translations
Introduction
SECTION I: The Global Sixties and Leftist Activism
1 The Socialist Bildungsroman and Global Youth: Wang Meng and Jack Kerouac Wendy Larson
2 Growing Up in an Age of Turbulence: The Bildungsromane of Young Hong Kong Writers in the Sixties Mary Shuk-han Wong
3 Abandoning Iowa's Modernism: Wan Kin-lau Renounces His Bildung in the Cold War Era Mung Ting Chung
SECTION II. Afterlives and Unstable Repositionings
4 Mapping and Contesting the Notion of Sinophone: The Coming of Age of Global Chinese Literature Sheldon Lu
5 The Coming of Age of Hong Kong: Dung Kai-cheung's Celestial Creations and the Works of Man: Vividness and Veracity Enoch, Yee-lok Tam
6 Coming of Age and Learning to Live (with Ghosts) in Borneo's Rainforest Alison M. Groppe
SECTION III. Screening Urban Precarity
7 Little Pinks, Shamate Kids, and the Involuted Generation: A Coming-of-Age Portrait of China's Post-'90s Generation Kiu-wai Chu
8 Sentimentality and the Capitalization of Humanity: On Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo Pheng Cheah
9 Years of the Yearning Youth: Growth, Flows, and the Dilemma of Maturity in Hong Kong Coming-of-Age Films Fiona Y. W. Law
SECTION IV. The Ecological and the Posthuman
10 Spectral Mappings: Coming of Age in Su Tong's Shadow of the Hunter Andrea Riemenschnitter
11 Coming of Age in Post-urban Hong Kong: An Ecocritical Approach to Land-writing and Land-filming Winnie L. M. Yee
12 Becoming a Cyborg: Female Coming of Age in Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide Hua Li
Complete Bibliography
Index Keywords
Contributors
