Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China

Dooling, A.

This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of 'modern' women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the PRC. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices who intervened in the gender debates of their generation as well as contextualises the strategies used in imagining alternative stories of female experience and potential. It asks two questions: first, how did the advent of enlightened views of gender relations and sexuality influence literary practices of 'new women' in terms of narrative forms and strategies, readership, and publication venues? Second, how do these representations attest to the way these female intellectuals engaged and expanded social and political concerns from the personal to the national?

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-03-08

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403967336

DOI: 10.1057/9781403978271

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 273