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The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures
By (author) Xiaofan Amy Li
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The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures is the first book that examines the concept of risk in non-anglophone world literature. Focusing on how risk is produced and reshaped by literary aesthetics, Li argues that risk is a creative rather than negative force in world literature. Instead of disaster narratives, Li approaches risk from the fresh perspective of ludic aesthetics, or playful, gamelike, illusionistic and experimental literary strategies. Comparatively analysing an original selection of texts by modern and contemporary French-Francophone and East Asian writers, each chapter focuses on a particular genre such as the novel, life-writing, poetry, and image-texts. The reimagination of risk in literature is revealed to be closely related to different forms of play such as structured games, masquerade, poetic and intermedial experimentation. Franco-East Asian literatures help us rethink risk in linguistically diverse and cross-cultural contexts, providing a new paradigm for comparative criticism and world literature.
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 19 Feb 2026
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 290
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 532g
ISBN | 978-1-0096-7022-7
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BISAC | literary criticism / general
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