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Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in the Minor Literature of Manchukuo

Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in the Minor Literature of Manchukuo Although claimed as a nation-state, with a government, a territory, and citizenry, Manchukuo (1932–1945) is a colony of the Empire of Japan, appropriated from Northeast China. As such, Manchukuo’s literary identity complicates the relationship between nationalism and literature, inviting us to rethink the history of Chinese literature in specific and East Asian literary history in general. This article tackles the thorny problem of Manchukuo literary formation by going through Shuimei Shih’s concept of sinophone and Chen Pingyuan’s notion of the multiethnic, only to conclude via a reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s elaboration of Kafka that Manchukuo’s corpus is best approached as a minor literature of its own. The very colonial and local complexity of Manchukuo’s minor literature lies in its multiethnicity and multilingualism. A close reading of Mei’niang, Yokoda Fumiko, and Arsenii Nesmelov, through their deterritorialized Chinese, Japanese, and Russian stories, demonstrates the range of indigenous and exiled writers in their diverse imagination of Manchukuo’s ambiguous sovereignty. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions Duke University Press

Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in the Minor Literature of Manchukuo

Chen, Yue
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Abstract

Although claimed as a nation-state, with a government, a territory, and citizenry, Manchukuo (1932–1945) is a colony of the Empire of Japan, appropriated from Northeast China. As such, Manchukuo’s literary identity complicates the relationship between nationalism and literature, inviting us to rethink the history of Chinese literature in specific and East Asian literary history in general. This article tackles the thorny problem of Manchukuo literary formation by going through Shuimei Shih’s concept of sinophone and Chen Pingyuan’s notion of the multiethnic, only to conclude via a reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s elaboration of Kafka that Manchukuo’s corpus is best approached as a minor literature of its own. The very colonial and local complexity of Manchukuo’s minor literature lies in its multiethnicity and multilingualism. A close reading of Mei’niang, Yokoda Fumiko, and Arsenii Nesmelov, through their deterritorialized Chinese, Japanese, and Russian stories, demonstrates the range of indigenous and exiled writers in their diverse imagination of Manchukuo’s ambiguous sovereignty.

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    Bakich, Olga
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    Bakich, Olga
  • Introduction
    Barlow, Tani
  • “Duominzu wenxue de yuedu yu chanshi” 多民族文学的阅 读与阐释 (“The Reading and Interpretation of Multiethnic Literature”)
    Chen, Pingyuan 陈平原
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    Dan, Di 但娣 梁山丁, Liang, Shanding
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    Li, Meng
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    Liu, Yong 刘勇
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    Mei, Niang 梅娘 Zhang, Quan 张泉
  • “Qiao’min” 侨民 (“Migrants”)
    Niang, Mei
  • “Xie” 蟹 (“Crabs”) and “Bang” 蚌 (“Clam”)
    Niang, Mei Shanding, Liang
  • “Honghe toufa de lianka” 红褐头发的莲卡 (“Red Hair Lanca”), translated by Shi Guoxiong 石国雄.”
    Nesmelov, Arsenii Li, Yanling 李延龄
  • “Xun zhe aiqing de zuji” 循着爱情的足迹 (“Following the Trace of Love”), translated by Shi Guoxiong 石国雄
    Nesmelov, Arsenii Li, Yanling 李延龄
  • Lamoza
    Nesmelov, Arsenii Shteı˘n, E˙mmanuil
  • Lamoza
    Nesmelov, Arsenii Vitkovskii, Evgenii; Kolesov, Aleksandr; Li, Meng; Rezvii, Vladislav
  • The Conception of the Sinophone
    Shih, Shu-mei
  • “Kaze” 風 (“Wind”)
    Yokota, Fumiko 横田文子 Yasunari, Kawabata 川端康成; Kishita, Kunio 岸田國士
  • “Mei Niangtade shijing he tade zuopin shijie” 梅娘 — — 她的史迹 和她的作品世界 (“Mei Niang’s Historical Background and Her Fictional World”)
    Zhang, Quan 张泉
  • “Zhimin- quyu: jiangou zhongguo xiandai wenxueshi de yizhong weidu” 殖民 — — 区域:建构中国现代文学史的一种维度 (“Colonialism, Region: On the Construction of Modern Chinese Literary History”)
    Zhang, Quan
  • “Liu qi” 柳琦
    Zuo, Di 左蒂 Shanding, Liang