The mother and narrative politics in modern China
By: Sally Taylor Lieberman.
Series: Feminist issues : practice, politics, theory; Feminist issues (Charlottesville, Va.)
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Mothers in literature.; Women in literature.
Description: A modernist icon, an object of forbidden desire, a symbol of loss and suffering, and an incorrigible survivor - the mother takes all of these forms in Chinese literature from the 1920s and 1930s. In an innovative analysis, Sally Taylor Lieberman explores the meanings the maternal figure acquired at a particular place and time and then engages those meanings in a feminist rereading of the master narratives of modern Chinese intellectual and literary history.

Drawing on feminist literary criticism and the theories of Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein, and Sigmund Freud, Lieberman breaks traditional analytical boundaries as she explores the place of the mother in the ideological struggles through which the modern Chinese canon attained its present shape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index.