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She is one and all-writing Nushu, women's script in an autobiography | |
Lo,Yuen Yi | |
2012-11-01 | |
Source Publication | NEW WRITING-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CREATIVE WRITING |
ISSN | 1479-0726 |
Volume | 9Issue:3Pages:374-395 |
Abstract | Nushu, women's script, is believed to have been created and practiced exclusively by women in the Shangjiangxu Township, Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China for some hundred years. Through a set of unique matriarchal scripts, these women developed a tradition of storytelling, orally in chants, in embroidery, and in written form. They had produced abundant records of their stories in the form of either a biography or an autobiography, which shows a valid representation of their genealogy, a vital condition informing women's identity. I am taking the form of an autobiography, an interdisciplinary practice, as a disrupting challenge of conventions to reveal fragments of the stories of some of these women I visited in the region. With a singular she throughout the writing, I have attempted to resist from all patriarchal definitions and appropriations: she is fluid, she is in flux, she is multiple, and she cannot be fixed. She is one and all. She is fragmentary and a whole. |
Keyword | Autobiography Matriarchal Script Nushu Sexual Difference Women Women's Script |
DOI | 10.1080/14790726.2012.693092 |
URL | View the original |
Indexed By | ESCI |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Literature |
WOS Subject | Literature |
WOS ID | WOS:000211601900012 |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-84867499809 |
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Document Type | Journal article |
Collection | Faculty of Education |
Corresponding Author | Lo,Yuen Yi |
Affiliation | Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macao, China |
First Author Affilication | Faculty of Education |
Corresponding Author Affilication | Faculty of Education |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Lo,Yuen Yi. She is one and all-writing Nushu, women's script in an autobiography[J]. NEW WRITING-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CREATIVE WRITING, 2012, 9(3), 374-395. |
APA | Lo,Yuen Yi.(2012). She is one and all-writing Nushu, women's script in an autobiography. NEW WRITING-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CREATIVE WRITING, 9(3), 374-395. |
MLA | Lo,Yuen Yi."She is one and all-writing Nushu, women's script in an autobiography".NEW WRITING-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CREATIVE WRITING 9.3(2012):374-395. |
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