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Lieberman, Sally Irene Taylor.

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The mother and the politics of representation in modern Chinese fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The mother and the politics of representation in modern Chinese fiction./
Author:	Lieberman, Sally Irene Taylor.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	295 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: A, page: 4446.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-12A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9413026

The mother and the politics of representation in modern Chinese fiction.
Lieberman, Sally Irene Taylor.

The mother and the politics of representation in modern Chinese fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 295 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: A, page: 4446.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1993.

This dissertation aims to establish the mother's importance to the (en)gendering of modernism, nationalism, and revolution in China through close attention to her representation in fiction produced by China's Westernized intelligentsia between the late 1910s and the late 1930s. Chapter One links the mother's idealization in some early modernist works to the radical intelligentsia's valorization of certain "natural" human qualities and relationships regarded as antithetical to the "artificiality" of the old social order and as essential to modernization. Chapter Two considers the highly ambiguous emancipation of women within Oedipally plotted sagas of anti-patriarchal rebellion. Chapter Three explores the themes of emasculation and national powerlessness in stories of maternal domination of sons, and connects these themes to the gendered structures of colonialist ideology. Chapter Four identifies mother loss as a central issue in stories about modern womanhood, and reads the "new woman's" motherlessness as symptomatic of her precarious place in a new literature and an emerging social order still dominated male interests. Chapter Five examines some implications for reproducing women of motherhood's ideological appropriation for the discourses of progress and revolution. The final chapter finds that the sympathetic portrayal of the downtrodden masses in realist fiction depended heavily upon the deployment of a suffering, bereaved mother figure, despite this literature's explicit disapproval of sentimental and emotive appeals.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.

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520 $a The research offered here also aims to uncover some of the strategies responsible for the mother's marginalization and invisibility in the critical tradition. A masculinist repudiation of the mother has been fundamental to the formation of the modern Chinese literary canon; it is implicit in the rejection of many works in which mothers are central, and also in the privileging of "detached" and "scientific" discourses over emotionally engaged writing and reading. Close attention to the mother reveals the gendered structures undergirding Chinese realism's self-definition, as well as realism's continued dependence on the discourses it excludes.
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