Gender, discourse and the self in literature : issues in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong / edited by Kwok-kan Tam and Terry Siu-han Yip.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Tam, Kwok-kan.
• Yip, Terry Siu-han, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chinese literature--History and criticism.
• Chinese literature.
• Feminism in literature.
• Gender identity in literature.
• Discourse analysis, Literary.
• Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

xxx, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, [2010]

Summary:

As a cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, yet gender is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. The fiction behind the fictional, which many accept as truth, is what's most intriguing. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted gender values, this volume unravels the strategies writers and filmmakers adopt in their (de)construction of the gendered self in three different Chinese communities: mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Writing from the vantage points of film, literature, and gender studies, contributors adapt western gender discourse to map the construction and representation of self and identity in the social contexts of contemporary China.

Contents:

• Introduction : feminism and gender discourse in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong / Kwok-kan Tam
• Women's self-identity and gender relations in twentieth-century Chinese fiction / Terry Siu-han Yip
• Gender construction, stereotyping and cross-gender writing / Kwok-kan Tam
• Feminist literary criticism in China since the mid-1990s / Lin Shuming and He Songyu
• Food, body and female subjectivity : reading between Western and Chinses perspectives / Jessica Tsui Yan Li
• Women as human vs. women as women : female consciousness in modern Chinese women's literature / Qiao Yigang
• Liberation of femininity? Women's poetry in post-Mao China / Lisa Lai-ming Wong
• Gender construction in the novels of Zhang Kangkang and Liang Xiaosheng / Suying Yang
• Feminist critique : the patriarchal discourse of Chinese male writers / Sheng Ying
• Three Chinese women writers and the city in the 1990s / Jin Yanyu
• New modes of women's writing in the age of materialism / Guo Shumei
• Writing women's literary history : gender discourse and women's literature in Taiwan / Mei-hwa Sung
• The subaltern women's voice and the (film- )making of modern Taiwan / Kuei-fen Chiu
• Desire, fear and gender in Dong Qizhang's novel Dual body / Kwok-kan Tam
• Men aren't men : feminization of the masculine subject in the works of some Hong Kong male writers / Kwai-Cheung Lo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9789629963996
• 962996399X

OCLC:

526332650