Shizhi and Wen Jie : Two Chinese Poets

Birgit BUNZEL LINDER

Shizhi and Wen Jie : Two Chinese Poets

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Abstract

Recently, proponents of the Critical Medical Humanities have recommended more genre-specific approaches to the analyses of illness narratives, looking at cultural specificities of idioms of distress rather than exclusively at transhistorical or transcultural approaches. This genre-specific critique grounds my reading of the work of Chinese poets Guo Lusheng (*1948) and Wen Jie (*1963), diagnosed with schizophrenia and clinical depression, respectively. The study uncovers a lyrical voice that takes shape in the poets’ illness-related contents, but also in the formal aspects of the Chinese poetic tradition. I argue that the therapeutic delight of writing poetry lies less in expressing subjective experiences than in finding poetic forms that integrate individual experiences into a collective form of illness poetics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin
Editors	Florian STEGER
Publisher	Universitats Verlag, C. Winter
Pages	91-107
Volume	10
ISBN (Print)	9783825378394
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

This essay is a small and modified excerpt from Birgit Bunzel Linder: Metaphors unto themselves – mental illness poetics and narratives in recent Chinese poetry. In: Howard Y. F. Choy (ed.): Discourses of disease: writing illness, the mind and the body in modern China. Leiden 2016, pp. 90– 121.

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Metaphors unto themselves : Mental illness poetics and narratives in contemporary Chinese poetry
BUNZEL LINDER, B., 19 May 2016, Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China. Brill, p. 90-120 31 p.
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Shizhi and Wen Jie : Two Chinese Poets

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Bibliographical note

Metaphors unto themselves : Mental illness poetics and narratives in contemporary Chinese poetry

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