The fictional works of the Chinese writer Xue Yiwei, who migrated to Canada in 2002, can be regarded as a byproduct of cross-border mobility and cultural displacement. This paper examines the relationship between the individual and the metropolis in four short stories from the collection Shenzheners, focusing on the impact of the writer’s transcontinental relocation on his representation of city dwellers and intercultural encounters. This research adopts an interdisciplinary framework, which merges textual analysis with the approaches of Cultural Studies and Literary Urban Studies, and places this theoretical construction within a transnational context. By investigating the multiple narrative forms Xue Yiwei uses to question stereotypical cultural boundaries and to build a bridge between Chinese and global literatures, the connection between his experience of mobility and his hybrid fictional microcosm will be explored.
Rome University of International Studies, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0006-1030-4122
Titolo del capitolo
Transnational urban encounters: existential wanderings in Xue Yiwei’s collection Shenzheners
Autori
Giulia Rampolla
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4.15
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动
Curatori
Valentina Pedone, Miriam Castorina
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
204
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0067-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0068-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0069-1
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919