(Post)Modernism and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Chinese Literature

Date
Wed February 24th 2010, 12:00pm
Event Sponsor
Center for East Asian Studies
Location
Okimoto Conference Room; Encina Hall East Wing, 3rd Floor
(Post)Modernism and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Speaker: CEAS CHINA BROWN BAG SERIES Lin Zou, Visiting Scholar, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University This talk looks into the consumer culture since the 1990s in China that has made “bodily writing” popular, and that presents serious challenge to contemporary Chinese literature's effort to explore possibilities of resistance. This consumer culture shares some features of the postmodern culture characterized by Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson. However, it has complex relation with the Chinese history and the socio-political reality of China. Examining how contemporary Chinese experimental literature engages this consumer culture, this talk reconsiders the relation between consumer culture and literature's critical value, and between complicity and resistance.
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