| Titre | Ruinated Futurity: The “Dongbei Renaissance,” Literature, and Memory in the Digital Age | |
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| Auteur | Shiqi Lin | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 135, 2023 Interrogating Futurity in Contemporary China: Towards Plural Horizons of Political Imagination | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Special Feature |
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| Page | 51-60 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Since the 2010s, the “Dongbei Renaissance” has emerged in China as a transmedial phenomenon driven by a cluster of cultural producers retelling the stories of their parents' generation as laid-off workers during the tumultuous transition of Dongbei, or Northeast China, from a socialist industrial headquarter to a decadent urban ruin in the 1990s. With a focus on the translocal relevance of this cultural trend, this paper discusses the prominent role of literature and its synergy with digital media in transmitting repressed social memories across generations and shedding light on contemporary conditions of economic precarity. I propose the notion of “ruinated futurity” to characterise conceptual openings offered by this digitally-mediated literary boom in three dimensions: (1) a mnemonic future that resurrects the repressed memories of the silenced through transgenerational renarration; (2) a media future that reworks literature within a digital media ecology of remediation and interrelatedness, and (3) a socioeconomic future reoriented towards disposable populations beyond narratives of progress and development. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/16219 |
