Collecting the Self(English, Hardcover, Chiang Sing-chen Lydia)

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Collecting the Self(English, Hardcover, Chiang Sing-chen Lydia) is written by Chiang Sing-chen Lydia and published by Brill. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004142037 (ISBN 10) and 9789004142039 (ISBN 13).

Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and other perceived "anomalies" to accepted cosmic and social norms. As such, this body of literature is a rich repository of Chinese myths, folklore, and unofficial "histories". These collections also reflect Chinese attitudes towards normalcy and strangeness, perceptions of civilization and barbarism, and fantasies about self and other. Inspired in part by Freud's theory of the uncanny, this book explores the emotive subtexts of late imperial strange tale collections to consider what these stories tell us about suppressed cultural anxieties, the construction of gender, and authorial self-identity.