E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten
Reihe: Comparative Cultural Studies
ISBN: 978-1-61249-660-3
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Women tanci authors’ redefinition of female exemplarity within the Confucian orthodox discourses of virtue, talent, chastity, and political integrity could be bourgeoning expressions of female exceptionalism and could have foreshadowed protofeminist ideals of heroism. They establish a realistic tenor in affirming feminine domestic authority, and open up spaces for discussions of “womanly becoming,” female exceptionalism, and shifting family power structures. The vernacular mode underlying these texts yields productive possibilities of gendered self-representations, bodily valences, and dynamic performances of sexual roles. The result is a vernacular discursive frame that enables women’s appropriation and refashioning of orthodox moral values as means of self-affirmation and self-realization.
Validations of women’s political activism and loyalism to the nation attest to tanci as a premium vehicle for disseminating progressive social incentives to popular audiences. Women’s tanci marks early modern writers’ endeavors to carve out a space of feminine becoming, a discursive arena of feminine appropriation, reinvention, and boundary-crossings. In this light, women’s tanci portrays gendered mobility through depictions of a heroine’s voyages or social ascent, and entails a forward-moving historical progression toward a more autonomous and vested model of feminine subjectivity.
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Acknowledgments
Note on Style and Excerpts
Introduction: Toward a Spatialized Understanding of Women’s Literary
Tanci
Chapter One: Vernacular Literacy, Cross-Dressing, and Feminine Authority in Zhu Suxian’s
Yulianhuan (Linked Rings of Jade)
Chapter Two: Among Women: Feminine Homoeroticism in Li Guiyu’s
Liuhuameng (Dream of the Pomegranate Flowers)
Chapter Three: Gender, Syncretism, and Female Exemplarity: Jin Fangquan’s
Qizhenzhuan (A Tale of Exceptional Chastity)
Chapter Four: “Beyond Rouge and Powder”: Rewriting Female Talent in Sun Deying’s
Jinyuyuan (Affinity of the Golden Fish)
Chapter Five: A New Romance of the Nation-State: On Wang Oushang’s
Zixuji (A Tale of Vacuity)
Conclusion
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
About the Author