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Convegno: Genealogies of Literary Form in Contemporary China
22 Giugno 2022 – 23 Giugno 2022
Dipartimento Asia Africa Mediterraneo
Università Orientale, Napoli
Sala Conferenze Palazzo Corigliano
Piazza San Domenico Maggiore 12 Napoli
Organized by Marco Fumian (mfumian@unior.it)
Genealogies of Literary Form in Contemporary China, Conference Theme
June 22nd, Wednesday, 11:00 – 13:00
- Paola Iovene (University of Chicago), “Reading Beyond Books: Airing Lu Yao”
- Marco Fumian (Oriental University, Naples), “Methods of Distancing and the Limits of Realism in Contemporary China”
- Nicoletta Pesaro (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), “From the Avantgarde to the Unnatural Narrative: Can Xue’s Fictional World and its Political Meaning”
June 22nd, Wednesday, 15:00 – 17:00
- Shuyu Kong (Simon Fraser University), “Female Chastity Soup 女贞汤: Literary Collage and the Crisis of Representation”
- Wendy Larson (University of Oregon), “Not Italian Opera: Mo Yan’s Sandalwood Death and the Scourge of Western Literary Models”
- Paolo Magagnin (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), “Chinese Stories for Global Young Readers: a Look at the Cao Wenxuan Phenomenon”
June 23nd, Thursday, 10:00 – 12:30
- Pamela Hunt (University of Oxford), “A Wider and Stranger Space”: Xue Yiwei’s World-Shaped Literature”
- Astrid Møller-Olsen (Lund University and University of Stavanger), “Fragments of Hong Kong: Collage, Archive, Dictionary”
- Jiwei Xiao (Fairfield University), “The Talk of the Town: Chitchats in Xijie xiaoshuo and Cinema”
- Lena Henningsen (University of Freiburg) “Transformations of a Literary Giant: The Re-Writing of Lu Xun and his Works in Chinese Lianhuanhua Comics”
June 23nd, Thursday, 14:30 – 16:30
- Daria Berg (University of St. Gallen), “Genealogy of Utopia and anti-Utopia in Chinese literature”
- Martina Codeluppi (University of Insubria, Como), “What about Climate Change? The Underdeveloped Branch of Chinese Cli-Fi”
- Mingwei Song (Wellesley College), “New Wonders of a Nonbinary Universe: Genders of Chinese Science Fiction”
Genealogies of Literary Form in Contemporary China, Conference Programme and Abstracts
