La science-fiction comme allégorie du massacre de la place Tian’anmen chez Han Song : le cas de la nouvelle « La Chambre noire » (Anshi)

In this article, I will attempt to show how Han Song, one of the leading authors of contemporary Chinese science fiction, manages, through science fiction, to make reference the unspeakable trauma of the Tiananmen massacre. To this end, I will focus on the short story “The Dark Chamber” (Anshi 暗室),...

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Main Author: Loïc Aloisio
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2023-07-01
Series:Itinéraires
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/13662
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Summary:In this article, I will attempt to show how Han Song, one of the leading authors of contemporary Chinese science fiction, manages, through science fiction, to make reference the unspeakable trauma of the Tiananmen massacre. To this end, I will focus on the short story “The Dark Chamber” (Anshi 暗室), in particular on the many parallels between the “fable”, in Aristotle’s sense, of the short story and the events of Tiananmen, as well as on the use of allegory as a way of bearing witness to this traumatic event while circumventing censorship.
ISSN:2427-920X