Literary Remains Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn

Eileen J. Cheng, "Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0824835956 | PDF | pages: 252 | 20.4 mb
Lu Xun (1881-1936), twentieth-century China's greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who rejected traditional culture. Challenging conventional depictions, Literary Remains captures Lu Xun's disenchantment with modernity and illuminates his transformative engagements with tradition in his "modern" experimental works. Lurking behind the ambiguity at the heart of his writings are larger questions on the effects of cultural exchange, accommodation, and transformation that Lu Xun grappled with as a writer: How can a culture estranged from its vanishing traditions come to terms with its past? How can a culture, severed from its roots and alienated from the foreign conventions it appropriates, conceptualize its own present and future?