Women's Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China / by A. Dooling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dooling, Amy D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oriental literature.

Asia--Languages.

Asia.

Sex.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Asian Literature.

Asian Languages.

Gender Studies.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Local Subjects:

Asian Literature.

Asian Languages.

Gender Studies.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

Contents:

Cover

Women's Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Women and Feminism in the Literary History of Early Twentieth-Century China

Chapter 1 National Imaginaries: Feminist Fantasies at the Turn of the Century

Chapter 2 The New Woman's Women

Chapter 3 Love and/or Revolution?: Fictions of the Feminine Self in the 1930s Cultural Left

Chapter 4 Outwitting Patriarchy: Comic Narrative Strategies in the Works of Yang Jiang, Su Qing, and Zhang Ailing

Chapter 5 A World Still to Win

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-263) and index.

ISBN:

9786611363741

9781281363749

128136374X

9781403978271

1403978271

OCLC:

560462193