Antipodean China : reflections on literary exchange
2021
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Click and Collect for Antipodean China : reflections on literary exchangeAntipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spoke about the places important to them, their influences and their work, resemblances emerged, and the different perspectives contributed to a sense of common understanding, about literature and about the role of the writer in society. In some cases the communication is even more direct, as when the Tibetan author A Lai speaks knowingly about Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria, and the two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan and J.M. Coetzee, discuss what the Nobel meant for each of them. The collection also includes writing by some of the best Chinese and Australian writers: novelists Brian Castro, Gail Jones, Julia Leigh, Yu Hua, Sheng Keyi and Liu Zhenyun, poets Kate Fagan, Ouyang Yu, Xi Chuan and Zheng Xiaoqiong, and translators Eric Abrahamsen, Li Yao and John Minford. In the current situation of hostility and suspicion between the two countries, this collection presents what may be seen, in retrospect, as an idyllic moment of communication and trust.
Antipodean China : reflections on literary exchange / edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden.
Jose, Nicholas, 1952-, editorMadden, Benjamin, editor
Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo, 2021.©2020
247 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
97819258186429781925818642
808.84
English
385099
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 808.84 ANT | Available |
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