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Gender, Discourse, and the Self in Literature: Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
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Hardcover. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors unravel the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Editor(s): Tam, Kwok-kan. Num Pages: 230 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
As cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, but is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. What is intriguing is the fiction behind the fictional, which many people accept as truth. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors in this volume unravel the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
As cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, but is also real in its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity. What is intriguing is the fiction behind the fictional, which many people accept as truth. Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors in this volume unravel the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789629963996
SKU
V9789629963996
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About
KWOK-KAN TAM is Chair Professor and Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong. TERRY SIU-HAN YIP is Professor and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University
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