Li Ang's Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics

Herausgeber: Wu, Yenna

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Produktbeschreibung

Li Ang's Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics is the first collection of critical essays in English on Li Ang, the famous and controversial feminist writer from Taiwan, and some of her most celebrated works. The examination of Li Ang's taboo-breaking, trail-blazing discourse on gender, sex, national politics, and identity by historians and literary scholars will be of interest to scholars in the fields of modern Taiwanese and Chinese literature, feminist studies, Taiwan studies, and comparative literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780739177945
• ISBN-10: 073917794X
• Artikelnr.: 39594607

Autorenporträt

Edited by Yenna Wu - Contributions by Fang-yu Li; Ping-hui Liao; Chia-lin Pao Tao; Murray A. Rubinstein; Aubrey Tang and Yenna Wu

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. In the Vanguard: Li Ang's Discourse on
Gender and Politics Yenna Wu 2. Li Ang as the Socio-Feminist Conscience of
Taiwanese: Local Identity, Women's Liberation, Political Activism, and
Cross-Strait Outreach as an Author's Venues and Causes Murray A. Rubinstein
3. Li Ang on Extramarital Affairs Chia-lin Pao Tao 4. Between Insight and
"Inattentional Blindness": Feminist Controversy over Li Ang's Shafu Yenna
Wu 5. Figurations of "Biopower" and Relationship Dynamics in Li Ang's Shafu
Yenna Wu 6. Make It Till You Fake It: The Four-claw Dragons in The
Labyrinthine Garden Aubrey Tang 7. Women, Politics, and National Identity:
Revisiting Li Ang's All Sticks are Welcome in the Censer of Beigang Fang-yu
Li 8. Romancing the Strait: Love and Death in Li Ang's Seven Prelives of
Affective Affinity Ping-hui Liao 9. (Dis)embodied Subversion: The
Mountain-pass Ghost in Li Ang's Visible Ghosts (Kandejian de gui) Yenna Wu
Index About the Contributors