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Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People’s Republic of China by Maggie Greene (review)
Ist Teil von
Theatre Journal, 2021-03, Vol.73 (1), p.118-120
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
While acknowledging the value of this approach, Greene argues for the practice of “just reading” or “surface reading” (18), arguing that “to focus on what an author might have been implying, as opposed to what the text overtly states, is to gloss over an important part of the discourses and practices of literary production” (10). In analyzing the experimental nature of literary creations and the debates surrounding supernatural literature, Greene moves beyond the tendency to interpret cultural phenomena as the consequence of political campaigns, a practice that often over-simplifies the cultural history of the PRC into a chronology of “campaign times” (9). Resisting Spirits offers a nuanced understanding of this period’s dramatic literature and performance through a wealth of sources, including published newspaper and journal articles, records of closed-door meetings, published scripts, rehearsal editions of scripts used by performing troupes, personal memoirs and reminiscences, and archival documents.