E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Comparative Cultural Studies
ISBN: 978-1-61249-887-4
Verlag: Purdue University Press
Format: EPUB
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Feng addresses both the general and the specialized audience of fiction in early-twentieth-century Chinese fiction in three ways: for scholars of the May Fourth period, Feng redresses the emphasis on the simplistic, gender-neutral representation of the new women by re-reading selected texts in the light of marginalized discourse and by an analysis of the evolving strategies of narrative deployment; for those working in the area of feminism and literary studies, Feng develops a new method of studying the representation of Chinese women through an interrogation of narrative permutations, ideological discourses, and gender relationships; and for studies of modernity and modernization, the author presents a more complex picture of the relationships of modern Chinese intellectuals to their cultural past and of women writers to a literary tradition dominated by men.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The New Woman
CHAPTER ONE: Texts and Contexts of the New Woman
CHAPTER TWO: Books and Mirrors: Lu Xun and “the Girl Student”
CHAPTER THREE: From Girl Student to Proletarian Woman: Yu Dafu’s Victimized Hero and His Female Other
CHAPTER FOUR: En/gendering the Bildungsroman of the Radical Male: Ba Jin’s Girl Students and Women Revolutionaries
CHAPTER FIVE: The Temptation and Salvation of the Male Intellectual: Mao Dun’s Women Revolutionaries
CHAPTER SIX: “Sentimental Autobiographies”: Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin and the New Woman
CHAPTER SEVEN: The “Bold Modern Girl”: Ding Ling’s Early Fiction
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Revolutionary Age: Ding Ling’s Fiction of the Early 1930s
EPILOGUE: Ding Ling in Yan’an: A New Woman within the Party Structure?
Appendixes
Chronological List of Fiction Discussed in Each Chapter
Glossary
Works Cited
Index