Glossary 9 Flashcards
Bei Dao
Born in 1949 so was a youth in Cultural Revolution
Misty Poetry
The New Era 1979-89
Post Mao
‘Reform and opening’
Deng Xiaoping
Misty Poetry
朦朧詩 menglongshi
Opaque, obscure, hard to understand, confusing, ambiguous, pessimistic, critical, skeptical
Western influenced
Roots-seeking fiction
Ah Cheng
A literary movement concerned with “why were we so passionate about the Revolution and Mao?”
Ah Cheng
Born in 1949
He was part of Cultural Revolution but began to question politics.
Yu Hua
Born in 1960
Experimental fiction - deconstructs old narratives and deliberately challenges reader.
Attacks culture of literature: the shortcoming of words and the violence of words.
Grew up surrounded by death
Intertextuality
The interrelationship between texts; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other