Abstract
In her article, "The Political (Un)conscious: Rethinking Aesthetics from a Cross-Cultural Perspective," Xiaohong Zhang adopts a cross-cultural perspective, examining the cultural-specific nuances of critical terms like race, class and gender, all of which have bearings on our perception and conception of aesthetics. Drawing on Emory Elliot's groundbreaking book, Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age (2002), the paper probes into the aesthetic experience whose primary effect is to depragmatize. Along this line of thinking, the author draws attention to the aesthetic impetus of two Nobel laureates, Mo Yan and Gao Xingjian, whose rewriting of Western classics demonstrates Chinese authors' shared predilection for Western modernity in general and for modernist and postmodernist aesthetics in particular.
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Zhang, Xiaohong.
"The Political (Un)conscious: Rethinking Aesthetics from a Cross-Cultural Perspective."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
20.3
(2018):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3337>
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