| Status | 已發表Published |
| Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese Child | |
| You, C. | |
| 2017-09-01 | |
| Source Publication | New Directions in Gothic Children’s Literature: Debatable Lands |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 81-101 |
| Abstract | This chapter is to examine points of interaction between the tradition of strange tales and Chinese children's literature and culture. I have selected narratives that recognize motifs of cannibalism, strangeness and spectrality of the child, using anthropomorphic animals to investigate the alterity of gothic characters and children. Each section of this chapter recapitulates how a Chinese ghostly sensibility is subject to historical ideological constraints that cultiminated in various campaigns and debates throughout the twentieth century. A special focus is placed on modern fictional narratives that represent the collective trauma of turbulent socio-historical events in the mid-twentieth century. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how contemporary gothic stories are interspersed with themes of love, adventure, quest and family relationships to deliciously scare young readers. |
| Keyword | gothic strange tales contemporary children's literature chinese |
| Language | 英語English |
| ISBN | 9781138905474 |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 52507 |
| Document Type | Book chapter |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | You, C.. Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese Child[M]. New Directions in Gothic Children’s Literature: Debatable Lands, London:Routledge, 2017, 81-101. |
| APA | You, C..(2017). Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese Child. New Directions in Gothic Children’s Literature: Debatable Lands, 81-101. |
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