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Revolutionary Melodrama : = Tales of Family, Kinship, and the Nation in Modern China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Revolutionary Melodrama :/
Reminder of title:	Tales of Family, Kinship, and the Nation in Modern China.
Author:	Xiong, Shuangting.
Description:	1 online resource (214 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-02A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29252805click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798841742616

Revolutionary Melodrama : = Tales of Family, Kinship, and the Nation in Modern China.
Xiong, Shuangting.

Revolutionary Melodrama :Tales of Family, Kinship, and the Nation in Modern China. - 1 online resource (214 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Revolutionary Melodrama: Tales of Family, Kinship, and the Nation in Modern China investigates the seemingly paradoxical pairing of "revolution" and "melodrama" and the vital role the melodramatic mode played in shaping modern aesthetics in China. Where melodrama is commonly understood to disavow revolutionary change and maintain the status quo, I argue that revolutionary melodramas function as emotional pedagogies in which abstract revolutionary ideas and ideals are made emotionally legible, and political solidarities more possible, to the masses. By deploying melodrama as an analytical category, this dissertation focuses on three representative manifestations of revolutionary melodramatic aesthetics at the micro-level of individuals and families. Each chapter of my dissertation draws together different media across three key historical moments in twentieth century China: the iconic May Fourth novel Jia (1933), the music-drama The White-Haired Girl (1945) created in wartime Yan'an, and the model opera film The Red Lantern (1970) produced during the height of the Cultural Revolution. In their reappropriations of the melodramatic mode, these texts deploy the affective trope of family and kinship to articulate alternative affiliations and create a passionate revolutionary collective capable of making socio-political change. Revolutionary Melodrama shows that aesthetic texts can be more than a mere reflection of what people's thoughts and feelings at a given historical moment; they are also mediated experience of history and modernity that can actively shape the affective meaning of family/kinship and transform existing structures of feeling at the same time. On the other hand, while the melodramatic mode provided a powerful, dichotomized trope that can be mobilized in different historical circumstances for varied ideological purposes, it ultimately failed to transcend these sets of dichotomies. Revolutionary melodrama oscillates between personal si feelings and public/social gong passions, between the particularities of familial and kinship bonds and the universality of the nation-state, and yet is never able to truly transcend such dichotomies.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798841742616Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Affective ethicsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

Revolutionary Melodrama : = Tales of Family, Kinship, and the Nation in Modern China.
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