Voices from a Room of One's Own
Examples from Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Lai-Ming Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Lisa Wong (0000-0003-0161-5982, Chinese University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 385-408 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0097700406288241 |
| OpenAlex | W1995024993 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Contemporary critics who study women's literature often focus on the very act of speaking, or the possession of a voice. The speaker in a poem seems to lend the women of her time a voice to express their feelings and in so doing offers a female perspective on social and cultural aspects of life. Adopting ideas from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own as well as Hélène Cixous's notion of “writing the body, ” this article explores how women poets find a private space in their own rooms for examining “liberated” selves. A new conception of body and space is presented in these lyric voices. In contrast, in the voices of many critics, we hear a glaring double standard that exposes the persistence of patriarchal inhibition of women's freedom of expression. This dialogic tension between the voices reveals women's predicaments and their strong protests against the status quo in contemporary China
Aesthetics · Art · China · Dialogic · Feeling · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Possession (linguistics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Status quo · Visual arts · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |