Title: Engendering Heroism: Ming-Qing Women's Song Lyrics to the Tune Man Jiang Hong
Abstract:Abstract The heroic lyric had long been a masculine symbolic space linked with the male social world of career and achievement. However, the participation of a critical mass of Ming-Qing women lyricis...Abstract The heroic lyric had long been a masculine symbolic space linked with the male social world of career and achievement. However, the participation of a critical mass of Ming-Qing women lyricists, whose gendered consciousness played a role in their textual production, complicated the issue. This paper examines how women crossed gender boundaries to appropriate masculine poetics, particularly within the dimension of the heroic lyric to the tune Man jiang hong, to voice their reflections on larger historical circumstances as well as women's gender roles in their society.Read More
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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