(Out of Stock) Gender, Discourse, and the Self in Literature
Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Kwok-kan Tam, Terry Siu-han Yip
229 x 152 mm , 291pp ISBN / ISSN : 978-962-996-399-6
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US$42.00
As a Cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, yet its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity are quite real. The fiction behind the fictional, which many accepts as truth, is at the core of what is most intriguing about the problem of gender. Critiquing this narrative, Gender, Discourse, and the Self in Literature unravels the strategies that writers and filmmakers adopt in their (de)construction of the gendered self in three Chinese communities: mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Writing from the vantage points of film, literature, and gender studies, contributors make an innovative marriage to Western gender discourse and the construction and representation of self and identity in contemporary China.
Kwok-kan Tam is chair professor and dean of arts and social sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong.
Terry Siu-han Yip is professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University.
