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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Li, Wai-yee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Women and National Traumain Late Imperial Chinese Literature
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Male Voices Appropriating Feminine Diction
  • Passing for a Woman
  • A Woman's Choices: Transparent and Hidden Analogies
  • Feminine Diction and Political Readings
  • Negotiating Political Choices
  • Forging Literary Communities through a Poetics of Indirectness
  • Revelations through Hiddenness
  • 2. Female Voices Appropriating Masculine Diction
  • Revisiting Feminine Diction
  • The Terms of Historical Engagement
  • Heroes: Failures and Fantasies
  • When Is a Sword a Sword?
  • The Rhetoric of Friendship
  • Gender Discontent
  • Women on Writing
  • "Our Husband Is China"
  • 3. Heroic Transformations
  • Contexts of Literary History
  • The Daughter's Patrimony in an Age of Disorder
  • Female Hero as Indictment
  • Female Hero as Apology
  • Taming the Female Hero
  • Inventing the Female Hero
  • Female Heroes and National Salvation
  • 4. The Fate of Pleasures and Passions
  • Defending Pleasures and Passions
  • Romantic Moralists
  • Writing About Women, Writing Women
  • Concubine as Martial Ghost: Wang Sun and Zhou Lianggong
  • Courtesan as Poet-Historian: Bian Sai and Wu Weiye
  • The Hidden Loyalist: Liu Rushi and Qian Qianyi
  • Salvageable Passions
  • 5. Victimhood and Agency
  • The Discursive Space Defining the Abducted Woman
  • Variables of Poetic Traces
  • Private and Public Passions
  • Political and Apolitical Chastity
  • Compromised Chastity
  • Crossing Boundaries
  • 6. Judgment and Nostalgia
  • The Women of Yangzhou
  • The Logic of Blame
  • The Logic of Praise
  • Remembering and Forgetting
  • Second-Generation Memory
  • The Elusive Femme Fatale
  • Judgment and Redemption
  • Aftermath
  • Works Cited
  • Index