Backward Glances
Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary
Fran Martin
As Martin explains, memorial schoolgirl love stories are popular throughout contemporary Chinese cultures. The same-sex attracted young woman appears in both openly homophobic and proudly queer-affirmative narratives, as well as in stories whose ideological valence is less immediately clear. Martin demonstrates that the stories, television programs, and films she analyzes are not idiosyncratic depictions of marginal figures, but manifestations of a broader, mainstream cultural preoccupation. Her investigation of representations of same-sex love between women sheds new light on contemporary Chinese understandings of sex, love, gender, marriage, and the cultural ordering of human life.
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ISBN | 9780822346807 |
Genre | History; Asian Interest |
Copyright Date | 2010 |
Publication Date | 29-Mar-10 |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Format | Trade Paperback |
No. of Pages | 290 |
Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist |
Language | English |
Rating | Good |
Paper Type | Electronic Format Available |
Subject | History |
BookID | 792 |