Author: Qiulei Hu
Publisher: Brill
Publication year: 2023
Abstract:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 A New Type of Gaze and the Rise of the Feminine Voice
Chapter 2 Longing for a Worthy Match: Jian’an Writing about Women and the Beginning of a Poetic Tradition
Chapter 3 Gender, Genre, and Historical Narrative
Chapter 4 Is It a Man or a Woman Speaking? Mapping Gender in Early Texts
Chapter 5 Neglected Voices of Early Medieval Women Writers
Epilogue: Creating the Voice of an Other
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