Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing Research Seminar: Sensory Literary Studies and the Aftertaste of Memory

  • Astrid Møller-Olsen (Invited speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentationPublic lecture/debate/seminar

Description

In this talk, I introduce my ideas for sensory literary scholarship and present a few textual examples of what such a sensorially focused, thematical comparisons might bring to light. In particular, I examine how memories taste and at how various (un)healthy appetites regulate recollection as a technology of the self in Dorothy Tse and Hon Lai Chu’s novel A Dictionary of Two Cities (雙城辭典) from 2012, in Ding, Liying’s novel The Woman in the Clock (时钟里的女人) from 2001 and in Chu, Tien-hsin’s novella The Old Capital (古都) from 1996.
Period2020 Feb 19
Held atThe Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, United Kingdom
Degree of RecognitionLocal

UKÄ subject classification

  • Languages and Literature

Free keywords

  • memory, Sinophone fiction, urban fiction, sensory studies