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題 名 | Women's Autobiography as Counter-discourse: The Cases of Dorothy Livesay and Yu Loujin |
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作 者 | Chen,John Zhong Ming; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 29:1 民87.秋 |
頁 次 | 頁19-34 |
專 輯 | Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Feminism/Femininity |
分類號 | 815.1 |
關鍵詞 | Woman's autobiography; Gender-related style; Reconstructive prose; Blending; Generic hybridity; Patriarchal norm; Retrospective prose; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
中文摘要 | This essay compares two women's autobiographies, A Chinese Winter's Tale (Yu, China, 1980) and Right Hand Left Hand (Livesay, Canada, 1977), two ground-breaking works. The focus is on three innovative dimensions of these two works which the author suggests may be intrinsic to “woman's autobiography”as a kind of genre: (1) the need to tell a woman's story, coupled with the hybridity of generic forms; (2) a mixture of gender-related masculine and feminine styles; (3) a boundary-crossing or boundary-free blending of private and political subject matter. These two autobiographies, while employing Maoist (Yu) and Marxist (Livesay) discourses, differ radically in purpose: while Livesay wants to remind her Canadian readers of their socialist-feminist legacy from the 1920's and 30's, Yu criticizes the politicization of everything in China to the neglect of private life and sexuality. Nonetheless both writers worked out, independently of one another, powerful means to challenge the patriarchal norm for autobiography writing. |
英文摘要 | This essay compares two women's autobiographies, A Chinese Winter's Tale (Yu, China, 1980) and Right Hand Left Hand (Livesay, Canada, 1977), two ground-breaking works. The focus is on three innovative dimensions of these two works which the author suggests may be intrinsic to “woman's autobiography”as a kind of genre: (1) the need to tell a woman's story, coupled with the hybridity of generic forms; (2) a mixture of gender-related masculine and feminine styles; (3) a boundary-crossing or boundary-free blending of private and political subject matter. These two autobiographies, while employing Maoist (Yu) and Marxist (Livesay) discourses, differ radically in purpose: while Livesay wants to remind her Canadian readers of their socialist-feminist legacy from the 1920's and 30's, Yu criticizes the politicization of everything in China to the neglect of private life and sexuality. Nonetheless both writers worked out, independently of one another, powerful means to challenge the patriarchal norm for autobiography writing. |
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