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Backward Glances

Autor Fran Martin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 apr 2010

În contextul unei transformări accelerate a peisajului cultural asiatic, remarcăm cum temele identității și dorinței redefinesc narațiunile mainstream. Backward Glances – Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary ne oferă o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care iubirea pasională între femei a ocupat, contrar așteptărilor, o poziție centrală în cultura de masă contemporană din China, Hong Kong și Taiwan. Autorul Fran Martin investighează un spectru larg de medii, de la cinematografia de elită la literatura de consum și serialele de televiziune, dezvăluind o prezență constantă a imaginarului homoerotic feminin. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit analiza asupra „logicii temporale” pe care Martin o aplică acestor reprezentări. Ea observă că, în cultura populară, relațiile între femei sunt adesea încadrate ca amintiri din tinerețe, experiențe trecute pe care protagonistele adulte le rememorează cu o melancolie ritualică. Această structură narativă nu izolează subiectul în trecut, ci, dimpotrivă, îl face să reapară neîncetat în prezentul cultural. Complementar volumului The Emerging Lesbian de Tze-Lan D. Sang, unde accentul cade pe geneza istorică a lesbianismului în raport cu modernitatea chineză timpurie, lucrarea lui Martin explorează manifestările contemporane și modul în care aceste povești „de școală” (schoolgirl stories) sunt consumate de un public larg, dincolo de granițele comunității queer. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări ale sale, precum Dreams of Flight, care se concentrează pe experiența studenților chinezi în Occident, Backward Glances rămâne ancorată în producția culturală locală și transnațională a spațiului sinofon. Tonul lucrării este unul academic, dar extrem de revelator pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă ordinea culturală a genului și a căsătoriei în Asia contemporană. Stilul de viață și consumul media devin aici lentile prin care observăm cum dorința subminează și, în același timp, reconfirmă structurile sociale tradiționale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822346807
ISBN-10: 082234680X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

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Despre autor

Fran Martin este profesor la Universitatea din Melbourne și o voce autoritară în cercetarea culturii vizuale și a studiilor de gen din spațiul sinofon. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre globalizare, media și identitate în Asia de Est. Pe lângă Backward Glances, a publicat lucrări de referință precum Situating Sexualities, despre cultura queer din Taiwan, și Dreams of Flight, explorând viețile femeilor chineze în context transnațional. Opera sa se distinge prin rigoarea analizei textuale și prin capacitatea de a conecta fenomenele media populare cu transformările socio-politice profunde ale regiunii Asia-Pacific.


Descriere scurtă

"Backward Glances" reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience. She argues that a temporal logic dominates depictions of female homoeroticism, and she traces that logic across texts produced and consumed in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. Attentive to both transnational cultural flows and local particularities, Martin shows how loving relations between women in mass culture are usually represented as past experiences. Adult protagonists revel in the repeated, mournful narration of their memories. Yet these portrayals do not simply or finally consign the same-sex loving woman to the past they also cause her to reappear ceaselessly in the present. As Martin explains, memorial schoolgirl love stories are popular throughout contemporary Chinese cultures. The same-sex attracted young woman appears in both openly homophobic and proudly queer-affirmative narratives, as well as in stories whose ideological valence is less immediately clear. Martin demonstrates that the stories, television programs, and films she analyzes are not idiosyncratic depictions of marginal figures, but manifestations of a broader, mainstream cultural preoccupation. Her investigation of representations of same-sex love between women sheds new light on contemporary Chinese understandings of sex, love, gender, marriage, and the cultural ordering of human life.
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Recenzii

“Backward Glances is a substantial contribution to the emerging scholarship on female same-sex desire in contemporary Chinese contexts. Through close readings of literary and visual texts, Fran Martin develops a convincing, sophisticated theory of ‘memorial discourse’ to explain the prevailing conceptualizations and representations of female same-sex relations in the cultural imaginaries of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China. She is very thoughtful in negotiating the cultural differences as well as the links among the regions, and in dealing with Western theory in relation to Chinese contexts.”—Siu Leung Li, author of Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera “Backward Glances is an astute, exhilarating work about transnational Chinese media representations of the (im)possibility of female homoerotic love. This tightly argued, deeply thoughtful book provides a genealogy of literary and cinematic love between women that frames these relationships as contested terrain in the temporal, melancholic, forced march toward heterosexual marriage. Fran Martin’s perceptive interwoven analyses of the overlapping geopolitical dialogues, both scholarly and popular, between Western and Chinese cultural critiques make Backward Glances a must read no matter where people locate their concerns about marginalized sexualities.”—Lisa Rofel, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture “This fascinating book skillfully delineates the unique characteristics of Chinese same-sex narratives in stories, television, and film. Fran Martin argues convincingly for the centrality of the ‘memorial mode of female homoerotic representation’ in which women are repeatedly haunted by an idealized lost love. She offers an important corrective to those who consider homosexuality to be a Western invention. In this very readable study, Martin engages current theories of lesbian sexuality, while insisting on the unique characteristics and importance of Chinese traditions of same-sex love. This impressive work should be read by anyone interested in the history of sexuality.”—Martha Vicinus, author of Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778–1928
"Backward Glances is a substantial contribution to the emerging scholarship on female same-sex desire in contemporary Chinese contexts. Through close readings of literary and visual texts, Fran Martin develops a convincing, sophisticated theory of 'memorial discourse' to explain the prevailing conceptualizations and representations of female same-sex relations in the cultural imaginaries of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China. She is very thoughtful in negotiating the cultural differences as well as the links among the regions, and in dealing with Western theory in relation to Chinese contexts."--Siu Leung Li, author of Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera "Backward Glances is an astute, exhilarating work about transnational Chinese media representations of the (im)possibility of female homoerotic love. This tightly argued, deeply thoughtful book provides a genealogy of literary and cinematic love between women that frames these relationships as contested terrain in the temporal, melancholic, forced march toward heterosexual marriage. Fran Martin's perceptive interwoven analyses of the overlapping geopolitical dialogues, both scholarly and popular, between Western and Chinese cultural critiques make Backward Glances a must read no matter where people locate their concerns about marginalized sexualities."--Lisa Rofel, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture "This fascinating book skillfully delineates the unique characteristics of Chinese same-sex narratives in stories, television, and film. Fran Martin argues convincingly for the centrality of the 'memorial mode of female homoerotic representation' in which women are repeatedly haunted by an idealized lost love. She offers an important corrective to those who consider homosexuality to be a Western invention. In this very readable study, Martin engages current theories of lesbian sexuality, while insisting on the unique characteristics and importance of Chinese traditions of same-sex love. This impressive work should be read by anyone interested in the history of sexuality."--Martha Vicinus, author of Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928

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""Backward Glances" is a substantial contribution to the emerging scholarship on female same-sex desire in contemporary Chinese contexts. Through close readings of literary and visual texts, Fran Martin develops a convincing, sophisticated theory of 'memorial discourse' to explain the prevailing conceptualizations and representations of female same-sex relations in the cultural imaginaries of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China. She is very thoughtful in negotiating the cultural differences as well as the links among the regions, and in dealing with Western theory in relation to Chinese contexts."--Siu Leung Li, author of" Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera"

Descriere

Examining a broad range of media (texts, film, television soap operas, comics, pop music, internet) this book studies lesbian representation in the contemporary Chinese mass cultures that circulate between the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong.