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The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial Literature | 3.99 MB
Title: The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial Literature
Author: May Friedman
Category: Nonfiction, History, Reference, Historiography, Asian, China, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Language: English | 214 Pages | ISBN: 3032081300
Description:
The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma, state violence, and socioeconomic dispossession. Looking beyond E****urocentric paradigms of kinship shaped by Western liberalism, structural anthropology, and Freudian-informed psychoanalysis, this book argues that literary and cultural spheres of the Global South are reclaiming kinship as a form of political sociality rooted in decolonial traditions, precisely through mourning its loss. Ultimately **, it** draws attention to the ways that narratives from the Global South open up new possibilities for emancipation in a postsocialist and postcolonial world marked by enduring and emerging forms of unfreedom.
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