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


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



von: Yenna Wu, Fang-yu Li, Ping-hui Liao, Chia-lin Pao Tao, Murray A. Rubinstein, Aubrey Tang

104,99 €

Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 18.12.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9780739177952
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 200

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<span><span>Li Ang (1952–) is a famous and prolific feminist writer from Taiwan who challenges and subverts sociocultural traditions through her daring explorations of sex, violence, women’s bodies and desire, and national politics. As a taboo-breaking writer and social critic, she uses fiction to expose injustice and represent human nature. Her political engagement further affords her a visionary perspective for interrogating the problematic intersection of gender and politics. The ambivalence in her fictional representations invites controversies and debates. Her works have thus helped raise awareness of the problems, open up discussions, and bring about social and intellectual changes. Some of her works have been translated into such foreign languages as English, French, German, and Japanese. In her career spanning over forty years, she has won numerous literary awards.<br><br></span><span>Li Ang’s Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics</span><span> is the first collection of critical essays in English on Li Ang and some of her most celebrated works. Contributing historians examine her vital roles in the Taiwanese women’s movement and political arenas, as well as the social influence of her publications on extramarital affairs. Contributing literary scholars investigate the feminist controversy over her 1983 award-winning novel, </span><span>Shafu </span><span>(Killing the Husband; translated as </span><span>The Butcher’s Wife</span><span>); offer alternative interpretative strategies such as looking into figurations of “biopower” and relationship dynamics; dissect the subtle political significance in her magnificent novel </span><span>Miyuan </span><span>(The labyrinthine garden; 1991) and explosive political fiction, </span><span>Beigang xianglu renren cha</span><span> (Everyone sticks incense into the Beigang censer; 1997) from the perspective of gender and national identity; scrutinize the multiple discursive levels in her superb novel </span><span>Qishi yinyuan zhi Taiwan/Zhongguo qingren </span><span>(Seven prelives of affective affinity: Taiwan/China lovers;</span><span> </span><span>2009); and analyze the “(dis)embodied subversion” accomplished by her fantastic</span><span> Kandejian de gui</span><span> (Visible ghosts; 2004). <br><br>As the first volume in English to examine Li Ang’s trail-blazing discourse on gender, sex, and politics, this work will inspire more studies of her oeuvre and contribute usefully to the fields of modern Taiwanese and Chinese literature, feminist studies, and comparative literature.<br></span></span>
<span><span>Li Ang’s Visionary Challenges to Gender, Sex, and Politics </span><span>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.<br><br><br></span></span>
<span><span>Contents<br>Preface<br>Acknowledgments<br>1. In the Vanguard: Li Ang’s Discourse on Gender and Politics<br>Yenna Wu<br>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<br>Murray A. Rubinstein<br>3. Li Ang on Extramarital Affairs<br>Chia-lin Pao Tao<br>4. Between Insight and “Inattentional Blindness”: Feminist Controversy over Li Ang’s </span><span>Shafu</span><span><br>Yenna Wu<br>5. Figurations of “Biopower” and Relationship Dynamics in Li Ang’s </span><span>Shafu</span><span><br>Yenna Wu<br>6. Make It Till You Fake It: The Four-claw Dragons in </span><span>The Labyrinthine Garden</span><span><br>Aubrey Tang <br>7. Women, Politics, and National Identity: Revisiting Li Ang’s </span><span>All Sticks are Welcome in the Censer of Beigang</span><span><br>Fang-yu Li<br>8. Romancing the Strait: Love and Death in Li Ang’s </span><span>Seven Prelives of Affective Affinity</span><span><br>Ping-hui Liao<br>9. (Dis)embodied Subversion: The Mountain-pass Ghost in Li Ang's </span><span>Visible Ghosts</span><span> (</span><span>Kandejian de gui</span><span>)<br>Yenna Wu<br>Index<br>About the Contributors<br></span></span>
<span><span>Yenna Wu</span><span> is distinguished teaching professor and director of the Asian Languages and Civilizations Program at the University of California, Riverside.</span></span>
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