Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction

Dauncey, Sarah

Abstract

A “pantheon of deformity” emerged in Chinese literature in the 1980s, when writers consciously began exploiting the metaphorical potential of disability to produce subversive literary works. Shi Tiesheng, by contrast, continued to write about disability as an embodied experience that is both personal and humanistic. Sarah Dauncey examines and compares two of Shi’s early novellas to show the writer’s unique contribution to the transformation of disability from a narrative tool into an important literary subject.

Citation

Dauncey, S. (2017). Writing Disability into Modern Chinese Fiction. Chinese Literature Today, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2017.1319213

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Oct 4, 2017
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Oct 5, 2017
• Journal: Chinese Literature Today
• Print ISSN: 2151-4399
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21514399.2017.1319213
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109469
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21514399.2017.1319213
• Additional Information: Featured Author: Shi Tiesheng