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Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary

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Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience. She argues that a temporal logic dominates depictions of female homoeroticism, and she traces that logic across texts produced and consumed in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the twentieth century and the early twenty-first.

Language: English

Pages: 290

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Release: April 19, 2010

ISBN: 082234680X

ISBN 13: 9780822346807

Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience. She argues that a temporal logic dominates depictions of female homoeroticism, and she traces that logic across texts produced and consumed in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the twentieth century and the early twenty-first.

Language: English

Pages: 290

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Release: April 19, 2010

ISBN: 082234680X

ISBN 13: 9780822346807

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