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The Confessant as Analysand in Yu Dafu's Confessional Narratives
Ist Teil von
Chinese literature, essays, articles, reviews, 2012-12, Vol.34, p.31-56
Ort / Verlag
Madison: CLEAR
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Yu Dafu's contemporaries famously read his short stories and novellas as confessional or autobiographical. Some later critics mimick Yu's first audience in an attempt to inhabit the position of "the Chinese reader circa 1920," while other typically more "Westernized" critics prefer to read Yu's work as ironic. Rather than taking a stand on either side of this autobiography/irony divide, I attempt to show its irrelevance through a discussion of confession as ritual practice and speech-act that demonstrates how, for Yu Dafu, self-expression and self-description were part of a single confessional process that intertwined emotional outpouring with self-analysis.