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Tickell, Alex
(2023).
Abstract
This article analyses two of Xiaolu Guo’s works: her debut novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007), and her most recent fiction, at the time of writing, A Lover’s Discourse (2020), and redresses a critical bias in readings of Guo’s creative engagement with language and translation by concentrating instead on Guo’s use of fragmentary ‘lexicographic’ form. I suggest that continental philosophy and critical theory provide an unexpected set of formal templates and intertexts for her work. I argue further that form and inter-textual suggestion allows Guo to play with ideas of synonymy, duplication, and concealed meaning, to articulate a sophisticated economic and political critique of her own situation as a migrant cultural producer in the global anglophone creative economy.
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- 83603
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0039-3827
- Keywords
- Xiaolu Guo, Diaspora Writing Form, Lexicography, Barthes Benjamin
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- FASS Centre for Scholarship and Innovation (FASSTEST)
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- Alex Tickell