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Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment
The Construction of the Feminine Voice in Early Medieval Chinese Literature
Series: - Women and Gender in China Studies, Volume: 13
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This book studies the formation of the male-constructed conventional voice of women in Chinese literature from the 3rd to 6th century.
It highlights specific moments during which the feminine voice became recognized, accepted, and stabilized, including the shift of focus from the performative to the textual in female representations; the formation of a male literary community; the popularity of romanticized historical narratives; and the emerging sense of literary history.
This study emphasizes the historicity of the feminine voice and strives to question and challenge established notions about textual stability, authorship, the literary canon, and literary history.
It highlights specific moments during which the feminine voice became recognized, accepted, and stabilized, including the shift of focus from the performative to the textual in female representations; the formation of a male literary community; the popularity of romanticized historical narratives; and the emerging sense of literary history.
This study emphasizes the historicity of the feminine voice and strives to question and challenge established notions about textual stability, authorship, the literary canon, and literary history.
Qiulei Hu, Ph.D. (2011), Harvard University, is adjunct professor at the City University of New York. Her publications include “‘Following the Troops, Carrying Alone Our Brushes’: Jian’an (196–220AD) Fu and Shi Written for Military Campaigns” in Asia Major (2020) and “The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity and Power in the Shishuo xinyu” in Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022).
Students of pre-modern China, especially those with interests in gender, women’s writing, and the formation of the literary canon; students of gender studies, textual criticism, and literary history in general.