Chapter Transnational urban encounters: existential wanderings in Xue Yiwei’s collection Shenzheners
The fictional works of the Chinese writer Xue Yiwei, who migrated to Canada in 2002, can be regarded as a byproduct of cross-border mobility and cultural displacement. This paper examines the relationship between the individual and the metropolis in four short stories from the collection Shenzheners...
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| description | The fictional works of the Chinese writer Xue Yiwei, who migrated to Canada in 2002, can be regarded as a byproduct of cross-border mobility and cultural displacement. This paper examines the relationship between the individual and the metropolis in four short stories from the collection Shenzheners, focusing on the impact of the writer’s transcontinental relocation on his representation of city dwellers and intercultural encounters. This research adopts an interdisciplinary framework, which merges textual analysis with the approaches of Cultural Studies and Literary Urban Studies, and places this theoretical construction within a transnational context. By investigating the multiple narrative forms Xue Yiwei uses to question stereotypical cultural boundaries and to build a bridge between Chinese and global literatures, the connection between his experience of mobility and his hybrid fictional microcosm will be explored. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-997572025-07-17T12:15:35Z Chapter Transnational urban encounters: existential wanderings in Xue Yiwei’s collection Shenzheners Rampolla, Giulia Global Chinese literature transnational writers transculturalism in Chinese fiction Chinese urban literature Shenzhen fiction thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies The fictional works of the Chinese writer Xue Yiwei, who migrated to Canada in 2002, can be regarded as a byproduct of cross-border mobility and cultural displacement. This paper examines the relationship between the individual and the metropolis in four short stories from the collection Shenzheners, focusing on the impact of the writer’s transcontinental relocation on his representation of city dwellers and intercultural encounters. This research adopts an interdisciplinary framework, which merges textual analysis with the approaches of Cultural Studies and Literary Urban Studies, and places this theoretical construction within a transnational context. By investigating the multiple narrative forms Xue Yiwei uses to question stereotypical cultural boundaries and to build a bridge between Chinese and global literatures, the connection between his experience of mobility and his hybrid fictional microcosm will be explored. 2023-05-02T04:18:07Z 2023-05-02T04:18:07Z 2023-05-01T13:46:58Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230501_9791221500684_269 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62853 9791221500684 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99757 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62853/1/chapter-37269.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62853/1/chapter-37269.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4.15 10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4.15 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221500684 20 Florence open access |
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