This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 BC until 1000 AD. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite men and shows where gender and social hierarchies cross paths. Rouzer argues that when male authors articulated themselves as women, the resulting articulation was inevitably influenced by this act of identification.
Articulated women are always located within a non-existent liminal space between ostensible object and ostensible subject, a focus of textual desire both through possession and through identification. Nor, in male-authored texts, is this articulation ever fully resolved-the potential of multiple interpretations is continually present.
| ISBN: | 9780674005273 |
| Publication date: | 2nd October 2001 |
| Author: | Paul F Rouzer, Harvard University, HarvardYenching Institute |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Asia Center an imprint of Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 424 pages |
| Series: | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series |
| Genres: |
Geography |
This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 BC until 1000 AD. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite men and shows where gender and social hierarchies cross paths.
Articulated Ladies features in the following genres: Geography
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Articulated Ladies was written by Paul F Rouzer, Harvard University, HarvardYenching Institute and published by Harvard University Asia Center an imprint of Harvard University Press
Articulated Ladies has 424 pages
Yes it is part of Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series series