ANTIPODEAN CHINA reflections on literary exchange.

Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spo...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jose, Nicholas, 1952- (Editor), Madden, Benjamin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING, 2021.
Subjects:
Online Access:Click for online access

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000M 4500
001 on1243351862
003 OCoLC
005 20240623213015.0
006 m o d
007 cr |n|||||||||
008 210327s2021 xx o 0|| 0 eng d
040 |a YDX  |b eng  |c YDX  |d N$T  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCF  |d EBLCP  |d LOA  |d OCLCO  |d SFB  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCL 
020 |a 9781925818659  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 1925818659  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 1925818640 
020 |z 9781925818642 
035 |a (OCoLC)1243351862 
050 4 |a PR9617.7 
049 |a HCDD 
245 0 0 |a ANTIPODEAN CHINA  |h [electronic resource] :  |b reflections on literary exchange. 
260 |a [S.l.] :  |b GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING,  |c 2021. 
300 |a 1 online resource 
520 |a Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spoke about the places important to them, their influences and their work, resemblances emerged, and the different perspectives contributed to a sense of common understanding, about literature and about the role of the writer in society. In some cases the communication is even more direct, as when the Tibetan author A Lai speaks knowingly about Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria, and the two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan and J.M. Coetzee, discuss what the Nobel meant for each of them. The collection also includes writing by some of the best Chinese and Australian writers: novelists Brian Castro, Gail Jones, Julia Leigh, Yu Hua, Sheng Keyi and Liu Zhenyun, poets Kate Fagan, Ouyang Yu, Xi Chuan and Zheng Xiaoqiong, and translators Eric Abrahamsen, Li Yao and John Minford. In the current situation of hostility and suspicion between the two countries, this collection presents what may be seen, in retrospect, as an idyllic moment of communication and trust. -- Publisher. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Reading Each Other: China and Australia -- I: The Meaning of Place -- Broken Sense of Place -- Sovereignty of the Mind -- 'Like the Thunder' -- Rewriting to Reclaim Ourselves -- The Power of Story -- On Region and Mobility -- The Age of World Literature Has Not Really Arrived -- On Carpentaria -- II: Place and Placelessness -- A River's Gifts -- A Sense of Place -- Foreign Concessions -- Unmaking the Sandpaper Stair -- The Stomach of Poetry -- Migrant Work -- Literature and the Local -- Dark Things -- III: The Translator's Task -- Life with the Tao -- 'A Thousand Bits of Jade': Judith Gautier and Chinese Poetry -- Literature and Translation -- The Burden of the Translator: An Interview with Eric Abrahamsen -- 'A Bilingual Force Moving in Between': memories of a bilingual animal -- Conceiving Otherness: 'Simon Leys' in China and Australia -- IV: Writers on the Move -- Between Colleagues and Friends: My Latin American Travels -- The Four Dreams of Lu Xun -- On Non-inclusiveness -- Seminal Retention -- Chinese Literary Feminisms -- Preface to Crystal Wedding -- Criticism Needs Soul -- Authors and Tradition -- Reality in Literature -- V: The Nobel Prize in China -- Coming from Tradition, Returning to Tradition -- The Nobel Prize in China -- The Nobel Prize in Literature and its Meaning -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Author biographies -- Translator biographies. 
650 0 |a Australian essays  |y 21st century. 
650 0 |a Australian literature  |x History and criticism. 
651 0 |a China  |x In literature. 
650 7 |a Australian essays  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Australian literature  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Literature  |2 fast 
651 7 |a China  |2 fast  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3 
648 7 |a 2000-2099  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast 
700 1 |a Jose, Nicholas,  |d 1952-  |e editor.  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwhvFcWd9h4r3PbRwQg8C 
700 1 |a Madden, Benjamin,  |e editor. 
758 |i has work:  |a Antipodean China (Text)  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCH9rYt4CPrVPgbrPMgTcxC  |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |z 1925818640  |z 9781925818642  |w (OCoLC)1226170033 
856 4 0 |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/holycrosscollege-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6643552  |y Click for online access 
903 |a EBC-AC 
994 |a 92  |b HCD