Northern Girls”

Cultural Politics of Agency and South China’s Migrant Literature

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12349236
AutoresWanning Sun (0000-0002-8687-3739, University of Technology Sydney, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume38
Fascículo2
Páginas168-185
Data de publicação2014-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsian Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357823.2014.901297
OpenAlexW2059907638
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências 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