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Gendered Words - Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China (Hardcover)
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Gendered Words - Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China (Hardcover)
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Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan
Province in south China, this book explores the world's only
gender-defined and now disappearing "women's script" known as
nushu. What drove peasant women to create a script of their own and
write, and how do those writings throw new light on how gender is
addressed in epistemology and historiography and how the
unprivileged social class uses marginalized forms of expression to
negotiate with the dominant social structure. Further, how have the
politics of salvaging this disappearing centuries-old cultural
heritage molded a new poetics in contemporary society? This book
explores nushu in conjunction with the local women's singing
tradition (nuge), tied into the life narratives of four women born
in the 1910s, 1930s, and 1960s respectively, each representative in
her own way: a nuge singer (majority of Jiangyong women), a child
bride (enjoying not much nushu/nuge), the last living
traditionally-trained nushu writer, and a new-generation nushu
transmitter. Altogether, their stories unfold peasant women's
lifeworlds and forefronts various aspects of China's changing
social milieu over the past century. They show how
nushu/nuge-registering women's sense and sensibilities and
providing agency to subjects who have been silenced by
history-constitute a reflexive social field whereby women share
life stories to expand the horizon of their personal worldviews and
probe beneath the surface of their existence for new inspiration in
their process of becoming. With the concept of "expressive depths,
" this book opens a new vista on how women express themselves
through multiple forms that simultaneously echo and critique the
mainstream social system and urges a rethinking of how forms of
expression define and confine the voice carried. Examining the
multiple efforts undertaken by scholars, local officials, and
cultural entrepreneurs to revive nushu which have ironically
threatened to disfigure its true face, this book poses a question
of whither nushu? Should it be transformed, or has it reached a
perfect end point from which to fade into history?
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