Women¿s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-349-53002-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of 'modern' women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the PRC. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices who intervened in the gender debates of their generation as well as contextualises the strategies used in imagining alternative stories of female experience and potential. It asks two questions: first, how did the advent of enlightened views of gender relations and sexuality influence literary practices of 'new women' in terms of narrative forms and strategies, readership, and publication venues? Second, how do these representations attest to the way these female intellectuals engaged and expanded social and political concerns from the personal to the national?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dooling, A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Women and Feminism in the Literary History of Early Twentieth-century China National Imaginaries: Feminist Fantasies at the Turn-of-the-Century The New Woman's Woman Love and/or Revolution?: Fictions of the Feminine Self in the 1930s Cultural Left Outwitting Patriarchy: Comic Narrative Strategies in the Works of Yang Jiang, Su Qing, and Zhang Ailing A World Still to Win

Über Autor(innen)

AMY DOOLING is Assistant Professor of Chinese and Co-ordinator of the Chinese Language program in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, at Connecticut College, USA.