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Li Ang's visionary challenges to gender, sex, and politics / edited by Yenna Wu.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- Feminism--Political aspects.
- Feminism.
- Li, Ang, 1952---Criticism and interpretation.
- Li, Ang.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Lexington Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Li Ang's Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics is the first collection of critical essays in English on Li Ang, the famous and controversial feminist writer from Taiwan, and some of her most celebrated works. The examination of Li Ang's taboo-breaking, trail-blazing discourse on gender, sex, national politics, and identity by historians and literary scholars will be of interest to scholars in the fields of modern Taiwanese and Chinese literature, feminist studies, Taiwan studies, and comparative literature.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 In the Vanguard; 2 Li Ang as the Socio-Feminist Conscience of Taiwanese; 3 Li Ang on Extramarital Affairs; 4 Between Insight and "Inattentional Blindness"; 5 Figurations of "Biopower" and Relationship Dynamics in Li Ang's Shafu; 6 Make It Till You Fake It; 7 Women, Politics, and National Identity; 8 Romancing the Strait; 9 (Dis)Embodied Subversion; Index; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 13, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-7795-8
- OCLC:
- 868906722
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