Girl Power in Cashore＇s Graceling is the title of this study. This study uses radical feminism as the theory, because the main character, Katsa, is the portrait of radical feminist. Katsa breaks the traditional gende...Girl Power in Cashore＇s Graceling is the title of this study. This study uses radical feminism as the theory, because the main character, Katsa, is the portrait of radical feminist. Katsa breaks the traditional gender roles and patriarchal ideology which dismiss and underestimate women as the inferior and subordinate from men dominance. Katsa as the main character is described as a woman who breaks the traditional gender roles by her extraordinary hobbies and capabilities, such as fighting, and killing. She also portrays radical-libertarian feminist who is showed by her principle and commitment on marriage, those are her refusal on marriage and her objection to have children.展开更多
Through reading two creatively translated stories by the Zhou brothers, Lu Xun＇s （Zhou Shuren） ＂The Soul of Sparta＂ （Sibada zhi hun, 1903） and Zhou Zuoren＇s ＂The Chivalrous Slave Girl＂ （Xia niinu, 1904）, t...Through reading two creatively translated stories by the Zhou brothers, Lu Xun＇s （Zhou Shuren） ＂The Soul of Sparta＂ （Sibada zhi hun, 1903） and Zhou Zuoren＇s ＂The Chivalrous Slave Girl＂ （Xia niinu, 1904）, this paper takes a close look at the intellectual trend in the first decade of the twentieth-century China of constructing strong and heroic women as the emblem of national power while rendering men as powerless. By focusing on a foreign heroine with traditional Chinese virtues, both translations creatively Sinicized and feminized the foreign power in the original tales. At the same time, male characters, prospective readers of the stories, and even authors themselves were marginalized, diminished, and ridiculed vis-a-vis the newly constructed feminine authority. Comparing this form of cultural masochism to other literary masochisms in modem China analyzed by Rey Chow and Jing Tsu respectively, this paper endeavors to excavate a hybrid model of nationalist agency grounded in the intertwined relationship of race, gender and nation. In my analysis, Gilles Deleuze＇s discussion on masochism is utilized as a heuristic tool to shed light on the revolutionary potential embedded in the ＂strong women, weak men＂ complex in the 1910s. I argue that the cultural masochism in late Qing represents one of the earliest attempts of the Chinese intellectuals to creatively use Chinese traditional gender cosmology to absorb the threat of Western imperialism and put forward a hybrid model of nationalist agency.展开更多
文摘Girl Power in Cashore＇s Graceling is the title of this study. This study uses radical feminism as the theory, because the main character, Katsa, is the portrait of radical feminist. Katsa breaks the traditional gender roles and patriarchal ideology which dismiss and underestimate women as the inferior and subordinate from men dominance. Katsa as the main character is described as a woman who breaks the traditional gender roles by her extraordinary hobbies and capabilities, such as fighting, and killing. She also portrays radical-libertarian feminist who is showed by her principle and commitment on marriage, those are her refusal on marriage and her objection to have children.
文摘Through reading two creatively translated stories by the Zhou brothers, Lu Xun＇s （Zhou Shuren） ＂The Soul of Sparta＂ （Sibada zhi hun, 1903） and Zhou Zuoren＇s ＂The Chivalrous Slave Girl＂ （Xia niinu, 1904）, this paper takes a close look at the intellectual trend in the first decade of the twentieth-century China of constructing strong and heroic women as the emblem of national power while rendering men as powerless. By focusing on a foreign heroine with traditional Chinese virtues, both translations creatively Sinicized and feminized the foreign power in the original tales. At the same time, male characters, prospective readers of the stories, and even authors themselves were marginalized, diminished, and ridiculed vis-a-vis the newly constructed feminine authority. Comparing this form of cultural masochism to other literary masochisms in modem China analyzed by Rey Chow and Jing Tsu respectively, this paper endeavors to excavate a hybrid model of nationalist agency grounded in the intertwined relationship of race, gender and nation. In my analysis, Gilles Deleuze＇s discussion on masochism is utilized as a heuristic tool to shed light on the revolutionary potential embedded in the ＂strong women, weak men＂ complex in the 1910s. I argue that the cultural masochism in late Qing represents one of the earliest attempts of the Chinese intellectuals to creatively use Chinese traditional gender cosmology to absorb the threat of Western imperialism and put forward a hybrid model of nationalist agency.
