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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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