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
Chapter Title
Transnational urban encounters: existential wanderings in Xue Yiwei’s collection Shenzheners
Authors
Giulia Rampolla
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0068-4.15
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2023
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Book Title
Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动
Editors
Valentina Pedone, Miriam Castorina
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
204
Publication Year
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919