Queer Chinese Postsocialist Horizons: New Models of Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Chinese Fiction, "Sentiments Like Water" and Beijing Story

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dc.contributor.advisorSang, Deborah Tze-Lanen_US
dc.contributor.authorShernuk, Kyleen_US
dc.creatorShernuk, Kyleen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-26T04:01:50Z
dc.date.available2012-10-26T04:01:50Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis thesis represents an investigation into the strategies used by postsocialist Chinese male subjects to articulate their subjecthood and desires. The introduction explains the choice for using a phenomenological methodological approach in addressing the issue and also lays out the simultaneous goal of this thesis to inaugurate a move away from political allegorical interpretations as the standard for reading contemporary Chinese literature. The body chapters look at two different contemporary Chinese works to help illuminate the arrival of the Chinese subject. Using Wang Xiaobo's novella "Sentiments Like Water" and the anonymously penned online novel Beijing Story as case studies, this thesis investigates the ways alternative epistemologies and uses of history can undo pathological understandings of queerness and create new identities for Chinese subjects. The thesis concludes with thinking about the direction of the queer and Chinese studies fields and offers future points of investigation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/12403
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectBeijing Story/Lan Yuen_US
dc.subjectContemporary Chinese Literatureen_US
dc.subjectHeteronormativityen_US
dc.subjectPolitical allegoryen_US
dc.subjectQueer phenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectSentiments Like Wateren_US
dc.titleQueer Chinese Postsocialist Horizons: New Models of Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Chinese Fiction, "Sentiments Like Water" and Beijing Storyen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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