Zweimal neu

Eigentlich habe ich vorigen Freitag schon ein Buch bekommen, aber ich komme irgendwie erst heute dazu, es in meine Datenbank einzupflegen und hier vorzustellen. Ausserdem habe ich gestern ein neues Buch zum Lesen begonnen, da der maltesische Vampir noch am Mittwoch ausgelesen war. Die Geschichte wäre auf jeden Fall noch ausbaufähig gewesen, denn sie war ja extrem kurz. Schade, um die gute Idee.

 

Gekauft habe ich:

Chris WILLIAMS (Hrsg.)
The Richard Burton Diaries

Meine Lektüre seit Freitag:

Amy Tak-yaa LAI
Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora

 

Description: The mention of Chinese women writers in diaspora immediately brings to mind Jung Chang (b. 1952) and her "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" (1991), which won the 1992 NCR book award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award, and got officially banned in China. Despite its popular reception and crucial acclaim, Chang's work has invited a lot of attacks. Among the most common is the contention that it merely focuses on the experience of the privileged and does not tell the reader what other memoirs have not already revealed. "Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora" is a pioneering study that focuses on four Chinese women writers currently living in the United States and England, whose works have been popularly received - and in many cases, highly controversial - but have received little scholarly attention: Xinran (b.1958), Hong Ying (b. 1962), Anchee Min (b.1957), and Adeline Yen Mah (b.1937). The chapters illuminate how Xinran constructs her identity and her fellow Chinese women in dialectics of self and other; how Hong Ying evokes cycles of return that blend Western and Chinese philosophical concepts; how Min employs images of theatre and theatrical conventions to depict the entrapment and transgression of her protagonists; and how Mah transliterates and appropriates both Western and Chinese fairy tale motifs to fashion her Chinese feminist utopia. While Jung Chang's memoir seems confining, it has aroused interest in the genre of Chinese female autobiography, and Chinese women writers who live and write between cultures.