Unlimited

Authorized users

Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Queering gender, sexuality, and becoming-human in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai : querying the strange tales / Thomas William Whyke, Melissa Shani Brown.

9789819942589 electronic book
9819942586 electronic book
9789819942572 hardcover
9819942578 hardcover

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., [2023]

English

1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-981-99-4258-9 doi

PL2437 .W49 2023

895.13/4809

"This book offers queer readings of Chinese Qing Dynasty zhiguai, 'strange tales', a genre featuring supernatural characters and events. In a unique approach interweaving Chinese philosophies alongside critical theories, this book explores tales which speak to contemporary debates around identity and power. Depictions of porous boundaries between humans and animals, transformations between genders, diverse sexualities, and contextually unusual masculinities and femininities, lend such tales to queer readings. Unlike previous scholarship on characters as allegorical figures or stories as morality tales, this book draws on queer theory, animal studies, feminism, and Deleuzian philosophy, to explore the 'strange' and its potential for social critique. Examining such tales enriches the scope of historic queer world literatures, offering culturally situated stories of relationships, desires, and ways of being, that both speak to and challenge contemporary debates. Thomas William Whyke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo China. Melissa Shani Brown is affiliated with the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany." -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access limited to authorized users.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2023).

Palgrave series in Asia and Pacific studies, 2662-7930

Print version: 9789819942572

Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources