Raconter le traumatisme historique en Chine: Le Grand Bond en avant et sa représentation littéraire

Authors

Alessandra Pezza
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8185-3889
Keywords: Collective Traumatism, Contemporary Chinese Literature, Great Famine, Great Leap Forward, Public Discourse

Synopsis

How does historical trauma inscribe itself in collective memory, and what roles do politics, historiography, and narrative play in the process? By analyzing representations of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine in China in post-Maoist historical and literary works, the text explores the impact of different narratives in approaching this “grey zone” within Chinese public discourse.

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Author Biography

Alessandra Pezza, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

is a postdoctoral researcher at Università degli studi di Milano – Bicocca, and scientific coordinator and responsible for communication at Officina di traduzione permanente of the same university. She graduated in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation at University of Milan (BA), and in Chinese Language and Literature at Institut des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in Paris (MA), where she also obtained her PhD. Her research focuses on the representation of forgotten and traumatic history and of cultural identity in contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature; and in translation studies. She is also a literary translator (contemporary Sinophone literature, especially genre literature such as Science-fiction, wuxia and danmei).

Published
June 24, 2025

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ISBN-13 (15)
979-12-5510-287-8