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Elsewhere like here: heterotopias in Han Song’s science fiction
Aloisio, Loïc
2023In Cultural Geographies
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Keywords :
China; Han Song; heterotopia; history; mirror; science fiction; society; Geography, Planning and Development; Cultural Studies; Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Abstract :
[en] This article focuses on the Chinese science fiction writer Han Song who often uses heterotopias in his work. I will use this concept to illustrate how Han Song uses these ‘other places’ for the emplotment of his stories to better reflect on the society and epoch described in his works. Indeed, Han Song often chooses the symbols of modernity put forward by the Chinese government as heterotopias and then distorts them to show the dark side of the government’s ideals, hence countering the official discourse. To do so Han Song has a particular way of emploting these heterotopias: he starts his stories right in the middle of reality before leading the reader towards a succession of exponential distortions of reality, while punctuating his text with references to Chinese history and current events, Han Song’s heterotopias hence encompassing many aspects of Chinese past and present society.
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Aloisio, Loïc  ;  Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté de Traduction et d'Interprétation - Ecole d'Interprètes Internationaux > Service de Traduction, Langues et Cultures chinoises et est-asiatiques
Language :
English
Title :
Elsewhere like here: heterotopias in Han Song’s science fiction
Publication date :
30 June 2023
Journal title :
Cultural Geographies
ISSN :
1474-4740
eISSN :
1477-0881
Publisher :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Research unit :
T216 - Traduction, Langues et Cultures chinoises et est-asiatiques
T216 - Chinese and East Asian Languages, Translation and Cultures
Research institute :
R350 - Institut de recherche en sciences et technologies du langage
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