Northern Girls”

Cultural Politics of Agency and South China’s Migrant Literature

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12349236
AutoresWanning Sun (0000-0002-8687-3739, University of Technology Sydney, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen38
Número2
Páginas168-185
Fecha de publicación2014-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357823.2014.901297
OpenAlexW2059907638
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas23

This paper is concerned with the cultural politics of agency, and explores the relationship between cultural form, migrant experience and social change. It traces the emergence of a range of literary forms in south China and how these new cultural forms provide hitherto unavailable space to contest the state- and market-driven narratives, which tend to link dagongmei’s (rural migrant women’s) sexuality with inexperience and vulnerability on the one hand, and criminality, immorality and incivility on the other. The paper suggests that these newly emerging cultural forms present alternative perspectives on the practical circumstances, moral rationalities and emotional consequences that condition and shape migrant women’s sexual experience, and for this reason, they constitute important points of intervention

Agency (philosophy · China · CONTEST · Human sexuality · Immorality · Morality · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law