التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Imagery and Interiority of the "Real" Chinese: A Feminist Postcolonial Reading of Eileen Chang's "Love in a Fallen City". |
| المؤلفون: |
Bi-ling Chen |
| المصدر: |
East West Connections; 2011, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p97-116, 20p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
BRITISH colonies, FEMINISM, PROTAGONISTS (Persons) in literature, PALIMPSESTS |
| Reviews & Products: |
LOVE in a Fallen City (Book) |
| People: |
ZHANG, Ailing, 1920-1995 |
| مستخلص: |
Although "Love in a Fallen City," the title story of a collection of Chang's short fiction, has received much critical attention since its publication in 1943, Chang's critique of British colonialism and contemplation upon its repercussions has not been systematically examined. Nor has any scholar explored the images related to Peking opera, the Great Wall, and ancient Chinese rituals and legends that the author appropriates to accentuate the dire need of the heroine, Bai Liusu, for self-reinvention and the vain search of the Chinese-Englishman, Fan Liuyuan, for an ideal China through her. Drawing upon Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's feminist theory of palimpsest and parody, as well as upon Homi Bhabha's postcolonial concept of hybridity and Edward Said's Orientalism, this essay aims to investigate how Chang employs culturally specific Chinese images to delineate her protagonists' interiority and negotiate their identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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