Gender and sexuality in twentieth-century Chinese literature and society / edited by Tonglin Lu

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Subjects: Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism
Women in literature
Women--China--Social conditions
Formats: Print
Material Type: Books
Language: English
Audience: Unspecified
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1993
Series: SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
LC Classification: P, PL
Table of Contents: Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1. Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony / Rey Chow 23
2. Gendering the Origins of Modern Chinese Fiction / Yue Ming-Bao 47
3. The Language of Desire, Class, and Subjectivity in Lu Ling's Fiction / Liu Kang 67
4. Liu Heng's Fuxi Fuxi: What about Nuwa? / Marie-Claire Huot 85
5. Rape as Castration as Spectacle: The Price of Frenzy's Politics of Confusion / Elissa Rashkin 107
6. A Brave New World? On the Construction of "Masculinity" and "Femininity" in The Red Sorghum Family / Zhu Ling 121
7. Femininity as Imprisonment: Subjectivity, Agency, and Criminality in Ai Bei's Fiction / Margaret H. Decker 135
8. Sisterhood?: Representations of Women's Relationships in Two Contemporary Chinese Texts / Zhong Xueping 157
9. Can Xue: What Is So Paranoid in Her Writings? / Tonglin Lu 175
Additional Authors: Lu, Tonglin
Notes: LCCN: 92006365
ISBN: 0791413713 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0791413721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Includes bibliographical references
Contents: Against the lures of diaspora / Rey Chow -- Gendering the origins of modern Chinese fiction / Yue Ming-Bao -- The language of desire, class, and subjectivity in Lu Ling's fiction / Liu Kang -- Liu Heng's Fuxi Fuxi / Marie-Claire Huot -- Rape as castration as spectacle / Elissa Rashkin -- A brave new world? On the construction of "masculinity" and "femininity" in The Red Sorghum Family / Zhu Ling -- Femininity as imprisonment / Margaret H. Decker -- Sisterhood? : representations of women's relationships in two contemporary Chinese texts / Zhong Xueping -- Can Xue : what is so paranoid in her writings? / Tonglin Lu
Physical Description: x, 204 p. ; 24 cm
OCLC Number: 25507954
ISBN/ISSN: 0791413713
0791413721

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