【线下讲座】宋明炜| 看的恐惧：中国科幻小说的诗学

港大小侦探香港人文情报小侦探 2024年02月28日 12:17

"Fear of seeing" constitutes the converting point of my thinking about the poetics of science fiction. Overcoming the "fear of seeing" to represent the invisible energizes this genre. Science fiction is an imaginary realm that opens up infinite new possibilities and inspiring new ways of telling stories about China and the world. Through analyzing representative works of the major authors of the new wave, I explore how the representation of the invisible creates political meaning and poetic resonance that has led to larger changes in the contemporary literary paradigm.

SPEAKER

Mingwei Song is a Professor of Chinese Literature at Wellesley College.He is the author of Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman. 1900-7959 (Harvard. 2015) and Fear of Seeing: The Poeticsl and Politics of Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia. 2023). He is the co-l editor of The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First Century Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia, 2018). His Chinese-language publications include New Wave in Chinese Science Fiction: History, Text,l Poetics (2020), Criticism and Imagination: Collected Critical Essays (2013), and Sorrows of a Floating World: A Biography of Eileen Chang (1996;second edition, 1998).

FEAR OF SEEING:

A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction

7 MARCH 2024 (FRI) 14:30-6:00 PM (HKT)

CBA, CHOW YEI CHING BUILDING, HKU

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