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.
發表於2024-12-26
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The central point of Fran Martin’s book Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary is that in modern Chinese media and literary cultures, the topic of love between women has been constitutively linked with a memoria...
評分The central point of Fran Martin’s book Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary is that in modern Chinese media and literary cultures, the topic of love between women has been constitutively linked with a memoria...
評分The central point of Fran Martin’s book Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary is that in modern Chinese media and literary cultures, the topic of love between women has been constitutively linked with a memoria...
評分The central point of Fran Martin’s book Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary is that in modern Chinese media and literary cultures, the topic of love between women has been constitutively linked with a memoria...
評分The central point of Fran Martin’s book Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary is that in modern Chinese media and literary cultures, the topic of love between women has been constitutively linked with a memoria...
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The central point of Fran Martin’s book Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary is that in modern Chinese media and literary cultures, the topic of love between women has been constitutively linked with a memorial mode of representation:an inevitable preoccupation with memory. (3)
評分The central point of Fran Martin’s book Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary is that in modern Chinese media and literary cultures, the topic of love between women has been constitutively linked with a memorial mode of representation:an inevitable preoccupation with memory. (3)
評分考察1920年代至今華語文學及影視劇中的(類)女同敘事如何將女性間的情欲刻畫為青春懷舊的對象。馬嘉蘭認為這一時間限定(同性欲望先於女性步入異性婚姻)在銘刻異性戀霸權、目的論敘事的同時,也通過召喚未完成的“過去”來實現對“當下”的批判性乾預。書中的議題與酷兒理論對queer temporality的思考有許多可對話的地方,不過全書除瞭一處注釋引用Edelman之外沒有觸及任何相關討論,對酷兒理論的介入主要集中在對《暗櫃認識論》的迴應。
評分考察1920年代至今華語文學及影視劇中的(類)女同敘事如何將女性間的情欲刻畫為青春懷舊的對象。馬嘉蘭認為這一時間限定(同性欲望先於女性步入異性婚姻)在銘刻異性戀霸權、目的論敘事的同時,也通過召喚未完成的“過去”來實現對“當下”的批判性乾預。書中的議題與酷兒理論對queer temporality的思考有許多可對話的地方,不過全書除瞭一處注釋引用Edelman之外沒有觸及任何相關討論,對酷兒理論的介入主要集中在對《暗櫃認識論》的迴應。
評分The central point of Fran Martin’s book Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary is that in modern Chinese media and literary cultures, the topic of love between women has been constitutively linked with a memorial mode of representation:an inevitable preoccupation with memory. (3)
Backward Glances 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載