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Title: 'It Was I Who Lured the Boy': Commoner Women, Intimacy and the Sensual Body in the Song Collections of Feng Menglong (1574-1646)
Contributor(s): Wu, Cuncun  (author)
Publication Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1163/156852610X545877
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15660
Abstract: This paper surveys bodily imagery and eroticism in Feng Menglong's 'Shan'ge' (Mountain songs) and 'Guazhi'er' (Hanging branch) collections. The direct simplicity and natural expression of desire in folksongs originating among commoners and courtesans caught the imagination of Feng Menglong and other members of the late Ming literati seeking to challenge orthodox strictures on life and imagination. This study argues that the contrasts between the contents of the songs and the signature of women in official forms of discourse cannot be dismissed as a simple reflection of differing rank or status but should persuade us to acknowledge an awareness of a doubled experience of female embodiment that separated marriage and passion.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Nan Nu, 12(2), p. 311-343
Publisher: Brill
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1568-5268
1387-6805
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
200517 Literature in Chinese
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950502 Understanding Asias Past
950203 Languages and Literature
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/156852610x545877
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