Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters - Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy

Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Author Cathy Yue Wang examines the processes by which modern authors and filmmakers reshape these traditional tales to develop new narratives that interrogate the ingrained patriarchal paradigm. Through a rigorous analysis, Wang delineates changes in both content and narrative that allow contemporary interpretations to reimagine the gender politics and contexts of the tales retold. With a broad transmedia approach and a nuanced understanding of intertextuality, this work contributes to the ongoing negotiation in academic and popular discourse between past and present, traditional and contemporary, and text and reality in a globalized and postmodern world. Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters offers an engaging interdisciplinary investigation of issues at the heart of these traditional tales such as gender and status hierarchy, marriage and family life, and in-group/out-group distinction. Beyond the content of these individual stories, Wang ties these narratives together across time using cognitive literary criticism, especially affective narratology, to shed new light on the adaptation of literary and cultural texts and their sociopolitical contexts.

General

Imprint:	Wayne State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
Release date:	August 2023
Authors:	Cathy Yue Wang
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-0-8143-4862-8
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-8143-4862-9
Barcode:	9780814348628

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