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蕭紅女性書寫研究 The Research of Xiao Hong’s Female Writing

Date : 2021-03-18

The Research of Xiao Hong’s Female Writing

Date: 24 March 2021 (Wed)
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online Zoom Seminar (Link to Zoom webinar will be sent to you after registration)
Speaker: Ms. PENG Yiyi (PhD Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK)
Moderator: Prof. HOYAN Hang Fung Carole (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, CUHK)


Abstract:
For those privileged young singleton urban daughters, the investment in their education from natal family quickly translates into human as well as cultural capital in establishing their online business. However, their educational attainments are, at the same time, perceived as overachievements and therefore discourage them from further cultivation in the e-commerce industry. The mechanism through which entrepreneurial motivations are constructed by the natal family is significantly distinct from that of the marital family for the women entrepreneurs in online business.

When researching Feminist literature, people always attached great importance to the control of the discourse power of female writers, encouraging writers to start from the perspective and experience of women and express their own voice through the text, so that women can "be saved by writing in this specific way". In this way, the subjective demands of female writers can be reflected a certain significance in writing. In the history of modern Chinese literature, Xiao Hong has always been in the position of forming her own writing style with self-narrative text, which including prose, novels and poetry. Researches on her image, not only pay attention to all kinds of biography, film and dance drama related to her image, but also need to return to her text narrative, and self-writing.

This report discusses the self-image of Xiao Hong's in her feminist writing. From the perspectives of female writing, autobiography and subjectivity construction, these texts can discuss the relationship between Xiao Hong's characters and their own images, as well as Xiao Hong's autobiographical discourse. At the same time, in the sense of the combination of literature and gender, Xiao Hong completed the construction of female subjectivity in the process of writing, and this subjectivity makes the writer's self-construction clearer. Of course, in the process of analyzing and accepting the images of female writers, it also existed some problems of female images being gazed at and constructed by others. This research hopes to bridge the gap between feminism and literary texts, to create a dialogue between them, and even to find the "acceptance history of feminist writers".


Speaker’s Biography:

PENG Yiyi, from Guangzhou, China, is a year-3 PhD student in Gender Studies & Department of Chinese Language and Literature. She got her BA from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, South China Normal University, MA in Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and MPhil in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her main research field is Modern and Contemporary Chinese literature as well as Chinese Feminist Literature, especially the research on female writer Xiao Hong (蕭紅). The title of her PhD dissertation is "The study on the reception history of Xiao Hong's image".

Language:Mandarin

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