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Fables for the patriarchs : = Gender politics in Tang discourses.

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Title/Author:	Fables for the patriarchs :/
Reminder of title:	Gender politics in Tang discourses.
Author:	Tung, Jowen R.
Description:	1 online resource (393 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International56-11A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
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ISBN:	9798728273028

Fables for the patriarchs : = Gender politics in Tang discourses.
Tung, Jowen R.

Fables for the patriarchs :Gender politics in Tang discourses. - 1 online resource (393 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references

A feminist reading of Tang discourses ranging from historical, social to literary, the study aims to unveil state ideologies that had the effect of undermining the structuring of both male and female subjectivity. Partially a demystification of the Tang's reputation as a period celebrated by emancipated women, the study points to some of the problematics unique to the era and considers it in the historical evolvement of female suppression. Metaphorically identified with concubines, ministers' perilous position at the court is important for a critique of their codification of women. Patriarchal historiography employs the politics of punishment and compensation in the princesses' biographies. The woman emperor Wu Zhao's manipulation of men's order, her cruelty, passions and her subtle erasure from history are discussed in conjunction with Yang Yuhuan, the classic case of female sacrifice. The institution of monogamy qualified by actual polygamous conduct contributed to the shaping of repressed female sexuality and caused male consciousness to suffer a psychological split between desire and decorum. The phenomenon of female jealousy is seen as a vigilance against the transformation of social configurations that created the literati class, which is historically significant for later devaluation of women. Situated at the ethical periphery and the center of male desires, courtesans' status was jeopardized by the role language played in their affiliation with the elite. The logic of the collective unconscious is revealed through exploring the narrative in which the mechanism of transference is employed to serve the purpose of cross-dressing desires. In the lament modes of poetry, in conjunction with a hermeneutic tradition of political allegory, the employment of female persona brings to the fore the problematics of gender expressions and androgyny. Writing in a female literary tradition which experiences in all probability male fabrications at its origin, Tang women were under the dictate of dominant poetic conventions. This is balanced by the courtesans' discourse which creates at times unadulterated feminine voice. A feminist critique of the Tang is essential for a rethinking of Chinese tradition.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798728273028Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Asian literature.
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