In his book Time in Ruins, the French anthropologist Marc Auge pointed out that Hhumanity is not in ruins, it is being built." These words well fit both the present-day Chinese context and the figurative trend of new ...
This essay suggests memory studies, ecocriticism, and trauma studies as new avenues for the study of rustic, ated youth narratives. Towards reaching this goal, I first introduce a meditation on memory by Paul Ricoeur ...