Eileen Chang – Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres
Posted: March 2nd, 2012 | No Comments »A new book on Eileen Chang from Kam Louie. Details as below.
“This unique collection concentrates on Chang’s post-1949 bilingual writings, translations and scholarly research, effectively revising and enriching Chang’s profile as a writer and her role in modern Chinese literary history. While popular reception of Chang is often characterized by either undue adulation or derivation, many papers in this volume provide much needed critical insights and carefully researched analysis, often based on newly revealed sources, touching on issues from Chang’s implication in the Cold-War politics to the ethics of autobiographical writing.” — Yi Zheng, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney
- Explores Eileen Chang (張愛玲)’s earliest short stories as well as novels that were published posthumously.
– Discusses the translation of her stories for film and stage presentation, as well as nonliterary aspects of her life that are essential for a more comprehensive understanding of her writings.
- Examines the fidelity and betrayals that dominate her alter ego’s relationships with parents and lovers, informed by theories and methodologies from a range of disciplines including literary, historical, gender, and film studies.
Kam Louie is dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong and author of Theorising Chinese Masculinity, and editor of Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image.
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