Gender, Discourse, and the Self in Literature: Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 962996399X ISBN 13: 9789629963996

Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2010

Synopsis

As a cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, yet gender is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. The fiction behind the fictional, which many accept as truth, is what's most intriguing. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted gender values, this volume unravels the strategies writers and filmmakers adopt in their (de)construction of the gendered self in three different Chinese communities: mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Writing from the vantage points of film, literature, and gender studies, contributors adapt western gender discourse to map the construction and representation of self and identity in the social contexts of contemporary China.

About this title

Book Description

This collection of 14 essays is unique because it combines related research from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic, some of it translated from the Chinese. Analyzed in depth are women's identity, gender construction, feminist criticism, literary histories of Taiwanese women's writing, and fiction.

About the Author

Kwok-kan Tam is chair professor and dean of arts and social sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong.

Terry Siu-han Yip is professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 962996399X
• ISBN 13: 9789629963996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Tam Kwok-kan, Yip Terry Siu-han