Ma Jian and Gao Xingjian: Intellectual Nomadism and Exilic Consciousness in Sinophone Literature

Abstract This essay uses an examination of intertwined thematics of fish and text in the fiction of the ethnically Malaysian Chinese author Ng Kim Chew in order to reflect on a broader set of ecological concerns, including issues relating to the natural ecology of the Southeast Asian regions depicted in Ng’s works, together with the overlapping literary ecosystems within which his works are embedded. In particular, the essay is concerned with the ways in which Ng’s fiction reflects on the relationship between the field of Southeast Asian Sinophone literature and the partially overlapping ecosystem of world literature.

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Gao Xingjian: Yi ge ren de shengjing

Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL) ◽

10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_11501-1 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Wolfgang Kubin

Keyword(s):

Gao Xingjian

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Les récits de voyage de Gao Xingjian

Traits chinois/Lignes francophones ◽

10.4000/books.pum.3966 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 120-137

Author(s):

Guillaume Thouroude

Keyword(s):

Gao Xingjian

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ETHNIC IDENTITY AND OTHER FEATURES OF MODERN SINOPHONE… TIBETAN LITERATURE

10.21638/11701/9785288058455.05 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 77-90

Author(s):

Ekaterina Zavidovskaya ◽

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Ethnic Identity ◽

Native Language ◽

Sinophone Literature

This paper focuses on a scope of short stories starting from 1980s produced by writers, who are ethnic Tibetans or come from mixed Sino-Tibetan families, but write in Chinese, which is either their native language, or have been acquired in childhood. I am interested in discerning specific features of this literature, which make it stand apart from modern sinophone literature produced by ethnic Hans and represent ethnic identity by means of a medium unfamiliar to many of these writers.

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