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Hong Kong Uncharted: Literature as Means? — Collectivity, Publicness, Identity



Event Date 21 May 2021 (Fri), 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Venue Virtual Seminars
Organiser SoH Communications Office (Email : soh_comms@ntu.edu.sg )


Event Info

Webinar 3: Literature as Means? — Collectivity, Publicness, Identity (in English and Mandarin)

May 21, Friday, 10am—1pm

  • Poetics of the People: The Politics of Debating Local Identity in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement and Its Literature (2014-2016)
    (Wayne YEUNG, Pennsylvania State University)
  • Inoperative Community: On the Space of Literature and the Minor Politics in Post-1997 Hong Kong 
    無為的共同體:後九七香港的文學空間和少數政治
    (Lik Kwan CHEUNG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • In Search of Literary Publicness: A Case Study of Post-70s Hong Kong Writers’ Treatment of Contemporary Social Movements 
    文學公共性的追尋——香港70後作家對當代社會運動的書寫
    (Sze Wing KWOK, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
  • The Dialectics between Individual and Community: Representing the Collective in Post-Umbrella Literary Works
    社群與個人的辯證:後雨傘及反修例運動作品中的「群體」再現
    (Mei Ting LI, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

    Discussant: Nim Yan WONG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
    Moderator: Chun Chun TING (NTU)


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