Memory Making in Folk Epics of China

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  • Memory Making in Folk Epics of China Book Detail

  • Author : Anne Elizabeth McLaren
  • Release Date : 2022
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  • Genre : Epic literature, Chinese
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  • ISBN 13 : 9781621966647
  • File Size : 2,2 MB
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Memory Making in Folk Epics of China by Anne Elizabeth McLaren PDF Summary

Book Description: "This is the first book-length study in the West on the folk epics of the Han Chinese people, who are the majority population of China. These folk epics provide an unparalleled resource for understanding the importance of "the local" in Chinese culture, especially how rice-growing populations perceived their environment and relational world. The folk epics were sung by illiterate farmers while working in the rice paddy or boating along the waterways. It was believed that singing promoted crop fertility and that the rice-plant embodied a female rice spirit whose growth and development paralleled that of human sexuality and procreation. Regarded as "vulgar" due to its erotic content, this song tradition was marginalized and little understood. The erotic content is often removed in editions directed at a national readership. Employing perspectives from memory studies, eco-criticism, and the study of oral traditions, this book examines in detail five iconic folk epics. The author draws on interviews with contemporary song transmitters and ethnologists from the Lake Tai region, as well as a collection of singer transcripts and unedited song material"--

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