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The Sword or the Needle

The Female Knight-errant (xia) in Traditional Chinese Narrative

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

This study focussing on narratives about female knights-errant () 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.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-0343-0036-0 / 978-3034300360 / 9783034300360

Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2009

Seiten: 430

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Roland Altenburger

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