Abstract
This article considers the contemporary genre of Internet fan fiction inspired by Dream of the Red Chamber, which is to say Chinese novels published over the Internet that take the plot of Dream of the Red Chamber as their starting point. Through a close textual analysis of thematics of incestuous desire, reproduction, and vestigial remains in two works of Dream of the Red Chamber fan fiction, he argues that these contemporary novels comment allegorically not only on their own relationship to Dream of the Red Chamber itself, but also on more abstract processes of literary production and canon formation.
First Page
190
Last Page
200
Recommended Citation
Carlos, Rojas. 2016. "Dream of the Red Chamber Internet Fan Fiction and Literary Canonicity." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (3): pp.190-200. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss3/8
