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The Sinitic Nexus: Becoming Asian in the Chinese-language Literature of Manchuria under Japanese Rule
Blahota, Martin ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Smith, Norman (referee) ; Hladíková, Kamila (referee)
The Sinitic Nexus: Becoming Asian in the Chinese-language Literature of Manchuria under Japanese Rule Abstract This dissertation analyzes modern Chinese-language literature produced in Manchuria under Japanese rule during the 1930s and 1940s. The protagonists in this literature identify not only with Manchuria, China, and Japan but also with East Asia. In my readings, a sense of belonging to China or East Asia, but more often to the latter, is one of the main sources for the cultural identities of these protagonists. In this study, I conceptualize the identities represented in the Chinese-language literature of Manchuria as a complex combination of entangled identities that I call the "Sinitic nexus." I argue that the "Asian" element of this nexus of identities is constructed by Asianism, or the pan-national discourse of "Asia." While thus far, the significance of "Asian" identities in the Chinese-language literature of Manchuria has been overlooked both in scholarship on this literature and in the intellectual history of Asianism, I focus on it to reveal the complexity of this literature from a fresh perspective that goes beyond naturalized categories such as nation and the dichotomy of the colonizer and the colonized, and also to show how Asianist thought was creatively reproduced in literature through...
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Early Prose Works by Gao Xingjian
Blahota, Martin ; Andrš, Dušan (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee)
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Gao Xingjian is well known especially as an author of drama and novels Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible. This thesis examines his early novellas and short stories that were created at the end of the 70s and in the 80s. An analysis of meaning contruction is focused primarily on motifs and narrative techniques. It explores the process of his literary creation in context of official ideological requirements on literature as well as in context of literature genres known as "scar literature", "literature of reflection" and "root seeking" literature. This thesis shows how Gao Xingjian is trying to create a unique and individual worldview of his characters.
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Gao Xingjian: 1980s Short Stories
Blahota, Martin ; Andrš, Dušan (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee)
Thesis abstract The aim of this thesis is to analyze Gao Xingjian's short stories published in the 1980s. Short stories are explored in the context of Gao Xingjian's essays, novels and dramas. The first and the second chapter concern themselves with the historical background of the literary work. The third chapter is dedicated to Gao Xingjian's essays and his theoretical approaches to literature. The fourth chapter includes analysis of his dramas and novels. The fifth and the sixth chapter represent the main part of this work: This part of the thesis is dedicated to exploration of representative sample of nine short stories. The subsequent analysis is concerned with the semantic structure of the short stories "On the See", "Mother" and "Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather". This thesis shows menaing-making techniques which are characteristic for the whole Gao Xingjian's literary work.
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