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Altenburger Roland

The Sword or the Needle: The Female Night-Errant (xia) in Traditional Chinese Narrative

Peter Lang 2009 Worlds of East Asia 15,

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Autor
Altenburger Roland
Editores
Peter Lang 2009 Worlds of East Asia 15
Materia
CINA China Chine
Descripción
S
Sobrecubierta
No
Conservación
Como nuevo
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Copia autógrafa
No
Primera edición
No

Descripción

8vo, br. ed. 428pp. This study focussing on narratives about female knights-errant (n¸xia) cuts along a thematic line in Chinese literary history, and thus seeks to contribute to understanding and appreciation mainly in three fields of inquiry: the formation of narrative subgenre; the literary representation of gender; and the particularities of the Chinese knight-errantry narrative. It traces the processes of textual collecting, editing, rewriting, and intertextual referencing by which narratives about female knights-errant were invented as, and forged into, a thematic sub-genre. The narratives about a character type who boldly transgresses gender boundaries are studied as an exemplary case for a general inquiry into the subversive significance of images of gender-bending strong female characters in the Chinese narrative tradition. Finally, the present study investigates into representations of the practice of Chinese knight-errantry, which includes assassination for social policing, private vengeance, and banditry.
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