Abstract
This paper investigates the unique fantastic structure of Chinese online time-travel romance genre. While primarily romantic fictions that have inherited generic patterns from Chinese romantic traditions, the online time-travel romance deviates from the generally realistic narrative conventions in its world-making. Written in the fantastic mode, this subcategory of romance establishes a two-world structure. This study focuses on how the heterotopian chronotope of the second world is constructed via postmodern linguistic hybridity, multiple times, and spaces. The study will also examine how the general cultural, intellectual, social, and political elements from Chinese imperial past together with modern consciousness and spaces create a unique fantasy world of clashing and dialogic chronotopes for the female protagonists to realize their romantic ideals. However, the most important aspiration and ambition embedded in this romantic idealism is the historical participation and intervention by women generally excluded from history-making.
Presenters
Jie LuProfessor of Chinese Studies & Film Studies, Department of Mondern Language & Literature, University of the Pacific, California, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
CHINESE TIME-TRAVEL ROMANCE, FANTASTIC MODE, HETEROTOPIA, CHRONOTOPE, LINGUISTIC HYBRIDITY
