Gender, discourse and the self in literature : issues in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong /
"As a cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, but is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. What is intriguing is the fiction behind the fictional, which many people accept as truth. Critiquing the fictive nature of sociall...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Hong Kong :
Chinese University Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "As a cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, but is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. What is intriguing is the fiction behind the fictional, which many people accept as truth. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors in this volume unravels the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong." --Book Jacket. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxx, 261 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789629968779 9629968770 |