Paola Iovene: 1 book
Tales of Futures Past
Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed,...
