Abstract:The last novel of what has been termed Ying Chen's "série fantôme," La rive est loin (2013), draws us further into a posthuman existence that has been consistently gestured towards since the publication of Immobile (1998) and concludes with a reconfiguration of space, place, and subjectivity that is inextricably intertwined with nature. This article proposes a metaphorical reading of the husband's brain tumor and the disintegration of the house inhabited by Chen's recurring couple as the gradual deconstruction… Show more
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