Luying Chen Presents at the American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting

News Office Staff / Mar 22, 2019

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Chen’s presentation was part of a two-day seminar titled “Religion, Ethics, and the Secular in Literature: Intermediality, Intervention, or Conflict of the Faculties?”

Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Associate Professor Luying Chen presented at the at Georgetown University on March 9. There, Chen presented her paper titled, “Judeo-Christian Faith Concepts, Transcultural Chinese Subject Positions, and Kierkegaardian Ethic: the Case of Shi Tiesheng and Gene Luen Yang.” Chen’s presentation on her paper was part of a two-day seminar titled “Religion, Ethics, and the Secular in Literature: Intermediary, Intervention, or Conflict of the Faculties?" The seminar was sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association Committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature.
 
Chen’s paper analyzes how Shi Tiesheng, a native Chinese writer, and Gene Luen Yang, an American-born Chinese, reposition selective Judeo-Christian faith concepts in dialogue with Buddhist concepts to create an “intermediary space” for the disabled as well as the racially and culturally marginalized. Chen says her paper, “explore[s] the ethical orientation of the texts in light of Kierkegaard's idea of subjective truth and analyze[s] what kind of ‘unbounded community’ each author imagines behind the fragmentation of the male Chinese subjectivity.”

 

 

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