Gender and Chinese Translations of Chinese American Women’s Literature: Marital Sexual Violence in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-371
Author(s):  
Beibei Tang
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
Women’S Writing

Comparing three Chinese translations of Amy Tan’s novel The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991), this article explores gender issues in Chinese translations of Chinese American women’s literature from a feminist perspective. Using the feminist concept of female alienation, it explores how feminist consciousness and sexual alienation caused by marital sexual violence in the source text are expressed in the Chinese translations, and how far the translations achieve (feminist) translation equivalence. Special attention is paid to the translators’ gender consciousness and ideologies, as reflected in their translations, in order to explore the role played by gender in the translation of women’s writing.

scholarly journals From Feminization of Fiction to Feminine Metafiction in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Woolf’s Orlando

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wassila Hamza Reguig-Mouro
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Women’S Writing

Feminism developed and widened its scope to different disciplines such as literature, history, and sociology. It is associated with various other schools and theories like Marxism and poststructuralism, as well. In the field of literature, feminist literary criticism managed to throw away the dust that cumulated on women’s writing and succeeded in raising interest in those forgotten female artists. Some critics in the field of feminism claim that there are no separate spheres, masculine and feminine, whereas others have opted for post-feminist thinking. Some women writers used metafiction to write literary criticism. Therefore, how do Gaskell and Woolf implement metafiction in their stories? Accordingly, this work aims at shedding light on Wives and Daughters by Gaskell and Orlando by Woolf to tackle metafiction from a feminist perspective. Examples from both novels about intertextuality, narration, and other aspects, that are part of metafiction, will be provided to illustrate how and where metafiction is used.

scholarly journals From Feminization of Fiction to Feminine Metafiction in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Woolf’s Orlando

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Wassila HAMZA REGUIG MOURO
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Women’S Writing

Feminism developed and widened its scope to different disciplines such as literature, history, and sociology. It is associated with various other schools and theories like Marxism and poststructuralism, as well. In the field of literature, feminist literary criticism managed to throw away the dust that cumulated on women’s writing and succeeded in raising interest in those forgotten female artists. Some critics in the field of feminism claim that there are no separate spheres, masculine and feminine, whereas others have opted for post-feminist thinking. Some women writers used metafiction to write literary criticism. Therefore, how do Gaskell and Woolf implement metafiction in their stories? Accordingly, this work aims at shedding light on Wives and Daughters by Gaskell and Orlando by Woolf to tackle metafiction from a feminist perspective. Examples from both novels about intertextuality, narration, and other aspects, that are part of metafiction, will be provided to illustrate how and where metafiction is used.

When Caged Birds Sing: The Many-folded Subject in the Baroque World of Heian Japanese Women's Writing

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-117
Author(s):  
Christina Houen
Keyword(s):  
Women's Literature ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Confessional Literature ◽  
The Many ◽  
Women’S Writing

In this article, the world of Heian women's literature is interpreted through Deleuzian concepts of desire and becoming and figures of the rhizome, the Baroque fold and origami, supported by Elizabeth Grosz's concept of art as originating in the impulse to seduction. Within the constraints of movement, dress and behaviour imposed by a polygamous hierarchical court society, Heian women created a rich body of literature that celebrated and subtly critiqued their world. Through aesthetic intensification of form and imagination within a labyrinthine cloistered society, they folded their fictional and autobiographical subjectivities into intricate patterns of desire. The richly described and imagined world of their fictional and confessional literature, still read, translated and transformed into other art forms, celebrates the freedom of the imagination even in confined and controlled circumstances.

scholarly journals Rape as a weapon in genocide and wars: Enquiring the problems of women’s witnessing rape

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
Yuyun Sri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Rape Survivors ◽  
The Future ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Women’S Writing

This paper seeks to better understand rape as a weapon in genocide and wars, the myriads contributing factors to creating ignorance to rape as a weapon in genocide, other forms of sexual violations, and circumstances that prevent women from witnessing rape acts of genocide violence. Drawing from the feminist perspectives of rape and women's sexual violence theorization, Derrida's accounts of truth and witness, and women as an improper mythic being-tainted witness, this paper shows that the current global gender inequality discrimination perpetuates the practice of rape as a weapon of genocide and wars as well as a repudiation for women's witnessing rape and sexual violations. As this situation of women rape survivors' desertions are not only happened in the Rwanda genocide and witnessing rapes for rape victims and survivors are equally challenging, this paper serves an alternative to support women's witnessing rapes and prevent rape the weapon of war to reoccur in the future. Further, Derrida's considerations on law should extend the notions of witnessing beyond the traditional European juridical tradition that excludes literature from legal exercise of witnessing as literature is regarded as mostly only fiction upbrings witnessing through literature as secret testimony is a useful interpretation on women's witnessing rape. Deciphering Derrida's description of witnessing through literature, this paper also recommends that women's writing literature can be an effective way for women to testify independently of the various gendered political disciplining gazes that hold them back from giving testimonies and then gain liberations.

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