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Writing Women In Northeastern China: Melancholic Narrative In Mei Niang's Novellas, Li Guo
Writing Women In Northeastern China: Melancholic Narrative In Mei Niang's Novellas, Li Guo
Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications
Mei Niang (1920–2013), the pen name of Sun Jiarui, is a female fiction writer, translator, and editor of Funü zazhi (Ladies’ journal). In the semi-colonial Northeast China, Mei Niang’s exploration of melancholic narratives shore up manifold levels of socio-historical discourses that are constructive of women’s subjectivity. Melancholic narrative functions as an inverted mirror of both the author’s cultural displacement from her diasporic experience, and her portrayal of colonial domination of local elites by the Japanese in Northeast China. Also, the author’s depiction of feminine melancholia revokes the modernist ideology of love and its constitutive male-centered discourses, dismantles the social disenfranchisement …