ghosts and gender in seventheenth-century Chinese literature
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zeitlin, Judith T.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, volkscultuur, geesten, vrouwbeelden, seksualiteit, sterven, Chinees, China, 17e eeuw
- Description
- This book probes the complex literary and cultural roots of the Chinese ghost tradition. The author shows that the representation of female ghosts expresses cultural concerns of central importance: the interrelationship between love and death, sexuality and fertility, disease and the body: the construction of a subjective voice for the dead as a means to test the promise of literary immortality: the nature of historical time and the present's mourning of the past, particularly in the context of dynastic fall and conquest: and, finally, the theater's ability to undo death and resurrect the past by staging the reunion between body and soul.