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Knight, Deirdre Sabina.

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Fate and free will in twentieth-century Chinese fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fate and free will in twentieth-century Chinese fiction./
Author:	Knight, Deirdre Sabina.
Description:	315 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2513.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-07A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9826407
ISBN:	9780591954753

Fate and free will in twentieth-century Chinese fiction.
Knight, Deirdre Sabina.

Fate and free will in twentieth-century Chinese fiction. - 315 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2513.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998.

This study addresses the dialectic of free will and determinism in Chinese fiction from the late Qing to the 1990s. My thesis is that despite successive movements to create a modern literature embodying emancipatory principles, much of this fiction is held hostage to fatalistic ways of thinking.

ISBN: 9780591954753Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.

Fate and free will in twentieth-century Chinese fiction.
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520 $a This study addresses the dialectic of free will and determinism in Chinese fiction from the late Qing to the 1990s. My thesis is that despite successive movements to create a modern literature embodying emancipatory principles, much of this fiction is held hostage to fatalistic ways of thinking.
520 $a I begin by clarifying how the notion of agency differs from the notion of subjectivity more commonly treated by literary scholars. To make a case for the central importance of the problem of free will to considerations of Chinese modernity, I recall the commitment to human freedom that drives the project of modernity and explain why neglecting the development of rational agency cripples the force of that commitment.
520 $a I then analyze the foreclosure of agency within major trends and in specific works from late-Qing novels by Wu Woyao and Liu E to the new realism, roots-seeking and experimental fiction of the 1980s and 1990s. In contrast to the open-endedness of many works of Classical Chinese fiction, in much modern Chinese fiction increased attention to individual consciousness and introspection tends to consolidate the absence of agency and reaffirm the power of fate or circumstance. Whether these texts suggest that the hidden agent of history be the hand of fate, traditional cultural norms and imperatives, the juggernaut of capitalism and imperialism or the inevitable transformation of society preached by Marxist-Leninist-Mao Zedong thought, they leave little room for responsible choice and action.
520 $a In considering fictional treatments of events such as the Cultural Revolution, I examine how narrative structures reinforce or contest fatalistic paradigms. In the final sections, I read closely the fiction of Mo Yan and Su Tong, two contemporary writers who use narrative techniques that challenge determinism as they struggle to renarrate Chinese experience. I assess the degree to which their experiments with modernist techniques promote an open sense of temporality and give strength to the belief in free will.
520 $a This investigation of the treatment of time and agency in Chinese fiction suggests that one way a society incapacitates dissent is to marginalize or render invisible a meaningful notion of freedom.
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