Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts - Couverture rigide

Rouzer, Paul

 
9780674005273: Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0674005279 ISBN 13 : 9780674005273
Editeur : Harvard University, Asia Center, 2001

Synopsis

This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 BC until 1000 AD. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite men and shows where gender and social hierarchies cross paths. Rouzer argues that when male authors articulated themselves as women, the resulting articulation was inevitably influenced by this act of identification. Articulated women are always located within a non-existent liminal space between ostensible object and ostensible subject, a focus of textual desire both through possession and through identification. Nor, in male-authored texts, is this articulation ever fully resolved--the potential of multiple interpretations is continually present.

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul Rouzer is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Minnesota.

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Éditeur
Harvard University, Asia Center
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674005279
ISBN 13 
9780674005273
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
440
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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