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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Hangping Xu
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Hangping Xu (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies) and Catherine Nesci (French and Italian) about Xu’s new book\, Crip China: Ablenationalism and Disability Aesthetics. In Crip China\, Hangping Xu offers a compelling account of Chinese modernism and modernity through the lens of disability\, or what he calls “a cripistemology of modern China.” Central to the book is a critique of “ablenationalism” as a recurring ideology in modern China: a national fantasy that imagines ideal citizens as productive\, disciplined\, often masculine\, and physically or mentally able. Within this cultural logic\, Xu argues\, disability repeatedly emerges as a thematic and aesthetic device that shores up normative subjectivities always already on the verge of collapse. Through close readings of literature\, film\, and digital media\, he shows how disability at once sustains and disrupts this national fantasy. Refusing to reduce disability to stock narratives of pathology\, pity\, and pathos\, Xu explores it as an intersectional political identity and embodied experience—one that enables new forms of collectivity and articulates an ethic of care for a more hospitable world beyond ablenationalism. By placing modern Chinese literary studies in conversation with critical disability studies\, Crip China both rereads the modern Chinese canon and reorients disability studies beyond its Euro-American genealogy. Comparative in scope and method\, the book also brings crip Chinese literature into broader debates in comparative literature and world literature. \nHangping Xu is Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and\, by affiliation\, Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He previously taught at Middlebury College. He holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Stanford University\, with a Ph.D. minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies and extensive coursework in Digital Humanities. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-hangping-xu/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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