Cultural Conflicts and Convergences as Creative Potency in Su Manshu’s Intertextual Performance

Abstract

Being a writer, translator, critic and social activist, Su
Manshu was one of the few scholars at his time preoccupied with
Indian literature together with the European. He practiced the
interlingual communication carefully during the trans-cultural
activities and also adopted diverse genres and stylistic strategies
in the intralingual reservoirs of his native language. The
intertextual performances render cultural conflicts and
convergences creative potency in Su Manshu’s fictions and
contextualize the pensées of the writer. The perspective of
intertextuality enables the researcher to surmount the
previously-assumed barriers between fiction and nonfiction and
to probe into the dimensions and constituents of these
“hypertexts.”