Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature

The recent decades witnessed the growing number of Chinese transnational novels (Ng & Holden, 2006), and some of them have achieved great success, especially those English novels written by overseas Chinese female writers and focusing on female bildungsroman. Yan Li and Xiaolu Guo are the most o...

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Main Author: Jiang, Ling
Other Authors: Moussa, Pourya Asl
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan 2019
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/45598/
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description The recent decades witnessed the growing number of Chinese transnational novels (Ng & Holden, 2006), and some of them have achieved great success, especially those English novels written by overseas Chinese female writers and focusing on female bildungsroman. Yan Li and Xiaolu Guo are the most outstanding representatives. In this study, I explore the female bildungsroman in Chinese transnational literature in English written by overseas Chinese female writers. The two texts chosen for the study are A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2008) by Chinese-British novelist Xiaolu Guo, and Daughters of the Red Land (1996) by Yan Li, a Chinese-Canadian writer. In my analysis, the development of the female protagonists in the two novels will be explored through the framework of transnational literature, which refers to the contemporary literature that has developed as a consequence of the transfer of information and ideas among different peoples, cultures and identities across a transnational field (Morgan, 2017).
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spelling usm-455982019-10-08T07:51:38Z http://eprints.usm.my/45598/ Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature Jiang, Ling H1-99 Social sciences (General) The recent decades witnessed the growing number of Chinese transnational novels (Ng & Holden, 2006), and some of them have achieved great success, especially those English novels written by overseas Chinese female writers and focusing on female bildungsroman. Yan Li and Xiaolu Guo are the most outstanding representatives. In this study, I explore the female bildungsroman in Chinese transnational literature in English written by overseas Chinese female writers. The two texts chosen for the study are A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2008) by Chinese-British novelist Xiaolu Guo, and Daughters of the Red Land (1996) by Yan Li, a Chinese-Canadian writer. In my analysis, the development of the female protagonists in the two novels will be explored through the framework of transnational literature, which refers to the contemporary literature that has developed as a consequence of the transfer of information and ideas among different peoples, cultures and identities across a transnational field (Morgan, 2017). Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan Moussa, Pourya Asl Kumaran, Rajandran Azam, Yazir 2019 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/45598/1/ART5.pdf Jiang, Ling (2019) Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature. In: The 5Th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture. Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, pp. 24-26. ISBN 9789674614362
spellingShingle H1-99 Social sciences (General)
Jiang, Ling
Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature
title Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature
title_full Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature
title_fullStr Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature
title_full_unstemmed Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature
title_short Female Bildungsroman In Contemporary Chinese Transnational Literature
title_sort female bildungsroman in contemporary chinese transnational literature
topic H1-99 Social sciences (General)
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http://eprints.usm.my/45598/1/ART5.pdf