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Deleuze and Chinese ""Pure Literature"": Literary Worlding from History to Becoming

By (author) Jian Xu

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Deleuze and Chinese â€œPure Literatureâ€: Literary Worlding from History to Becoming probes into the potentialities of a new conception of literature obscured by the critical ambivalence in Chinaâ€™s literary field around the turn of the century. With the help of Gilles Deleuzeâ€™s philosophy, this book articulates many of the latent social, political, and cultural ideas embedded in â€œpure literatureâ€ subsisting as a literary sensibility waiting to be expressed. The specific practices and works of â€œpure literatureâ€ analyzed in the book also serve as instances of what Deleuzeâ€™s creative concepts can address, testing and fleshing out their efficacy. Identifying shared problem-solving areas between Deleuzeâ€™s philosophy and Chinese â€œpure literature,â€ Jian Xu uses them to shed light on the hidden edges of Chinese â€œpure literature.â€ Through such Deleuzian theses as the immanence of becoming, the need of the nonhistorical, the virtual real and pure event, the ills of representationalism, becoming-minoritarian, becoming-woman, becoming-imperceptible, pre-individual singularities, and so forth, the book sets about creating a new critical vocabulary to help â€œpure literatureâ€ become self-conscious of its own political creative potentials.