Metropolis in twilight: urban consciousness in contemporary Chinese literature

Title: Metropolis in twilight: urban consciousness in contemporary Chinese literature
Creator: Li, Xia
Relation: Interlitteraria Vol. 6, p. 19-45
Relation: http://www.ut.ee/inlit/interlitteraria_6.htm
Publisher: Tartu University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2001
Description: The world has changed faster in the past fifty years than ever before and the emblematic landmark of this process is the modern metropolis. While the pace and intensity of change has varied significantly, no continent or culture has been left untouched by it. Big cities as an embodiment of a new reality have already attracted the interest and concern of great writers at the turn of the century, as reflected in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer (1925), Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and T. S. Eliot’s bleak poetic vision of London in The Waste Land (1922) or more recently in Salman Rushdie’s Bombay in Midnight’s Children (1983), to name only a few.
Subject: urban consciousness; contemporary Chinese literature; modern metropolis
Identifier: uon:1106
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26763
Identifier: ISSN:1406-0701
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