Counter-discourses to social inequalities and urban modernity

Subaltern women in post-2000s Chinese science fiction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12499232
AutoresDanxue Zhou (0009-0007-0954-8637, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Xi Liu (0000-0001-6095-5835, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen30
Número2
Páginas65-84
Fecha de publicación2024-04-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/12259276.2024.2350825
OpenAlexW4398252475
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas19

The issues of resurgent class and gender inequalities, rapid urbanization, and huge regional disparity were a notable focus of many post-2000s Chinese science fiction, which vividly created images of subaltern females. This paper looks at how contemporary Chinese sci-fi authors seek social justice by representing the experiences of various subaltern women within the specific genre of science fiction. It argues that the images of socially and culturally marginalized women were used as effective tools for questioning the intersectional social inequalities in contemporary China. The works discussed in this article all problematize the nature and influences of urban modernity by revealing the intersections, tensions, and contradictions between subaltern women and the classed, gendered modernization process. The sci-fi realist portrayal of subaltern agency and gender struggle also helps to generate powerful counter-discourses to urban modernity and technological utopia

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Inequality · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Subaltern · Asian Culture and Media Studies · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy