Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China

Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
ISBN-10
9047414845
ISBN-13
9789047414841
Category
History
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2021-12-28
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Sing-chen Lydia Chiang

Description

Inspired in part by Freud’s theory of the uncanny, this book explores the emotive subtexts of late imperial Chinese strange tale collections to consider what these stories tell us about suppressed cultural anxieties, the construction of gender, and authorial self-identity.

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