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Retheorizing the Personal: Identity, Writing, and Gender in Yu Luojin's Autobiographical Act

Retheorizing the Personal: Identity, Writing, and Gender in Yu Luojin's Autobiographical Act positions 6 : 2 Fall 1998 T h e case of Yu Luojin raises a number of questions important to any consideration of history, identity, literature, and the female author in postMao China. How idare a woman’s identityhdentities constituted in a particular society at a given moment? What is the relationship between a woman, a historical gendered being in a particular society, and her public autobiographical writing, which is not only a linguistic product but also both a subjective and a social product? What can society or conventions d o to a woman and her autobiographical writings, and how should feminist studies read out of a woman’s autobiographical writing female historical experiences, experiences that are not the objective origin of truth but a subjective and material site of the interactions of different historical forces? H o w should we perceive the formation of a woman’s identities in ways that not only prevent us from falling back into the simplistic and essentialist trap of fixation but also, at the same time, provide us with useful and historical information about various negotiations of those identities? Crucial to my exploration of these questions is my reformulation of the historically important feminist http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Retheorizing the Personal: Identity, Writing, and Gender in Yu Luojin's Autobiographical Act

Wang, Lingzhen
positions asia critique , Volume 6 (2) – Sep 1, 1998
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Copyright 1998 by Duke University Press
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positions 6 : 2 Fall 1998 T h e case of Yu Luojin raises a number of questions important to any consideration of history, identity, literature, and the female author in postMao China. How idare a woman’s identityhdentities constituted in a particular society at a given moment? What is the relationship between a woman, a historical gendered being in a particular society, and her public autobiographical writing, which is not only a linguistic product but also both a subjective and a social product? What can society or conventions d o to a woman and her autobiographical writings, and how should feminist studies read out of a woman’s autobiographical writing female historical experiences, experiences that are not the objective origin of truth but a subjective and material site of the interactions of different historical forces? H o w should we perceive the formation of a woman’s identities in ways that not only prevent us from falling back into the simplistic and essentialist trap of fixation but also, at the same time, provide us with useful and historical information about various negotiations of those identities? Crucial to my exploration of these questions is my reformulation of the historically important feminist

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