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Years of Sadness : Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi / Anyi Wang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781942242475
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.135209 23/eng/20220906
LOC classification:
  • PL2919.A58
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Translations -- UTOPIAN VERSES -- YEARS OF SADNESS -- A WOMAN WRITER’S SENSE OF SELF -- Original text -- 乌托邦诗篇 -- 忧伤的年代 -- 女作家的自我
Summary: This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume-"A Woman Writer's Sense of Self," "Utopian Verses," and "Years of Sadness"-explore some of the most fundamental and complex issues concerning Wang's identity as a woman and as a writer in early post-socialist China, the creative and emotional challenges she faced during her sojourn in the United States in the early 1980s, and her memories of adolescent years, a period of obsession, uncertainty, and loneliness during the Cultural Revolution.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Translations -- UTOPIAN VERSES -- YEARS OF SADNESS -- A WOMAN WRITER’S SENSE OF SELF -- Original text -- 乌托邦诗篇 -- 忧伤的年代 -- 女作家的自我

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This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume-"A Woman Writer's Sense of Self," "Utopian Verses," and "Years of Sadness"-explore some of the most fundamental and complex issues concerning Wang's identity as a woman and as a writer in early post-socialist China, the creative and emotional challenges she faced during her sojourn in the United States in the early 1980s, and her memories of adolescent years, a period of obsession, uncertainty, and loneliness during the Cultural Revolution.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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