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| Through a Burmese Looking-Glass: Transgression, Displacement, and Transnational Women's Identities | ||
| 作者 | Ho, Tamara Cynthia (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| 卷期 | v.66 n.5 Section A |
| 出版日期 | 2005 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.proquest.com/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 系所名稱 | Department of Comparative Literature |
| 指導教授 | Cheung, King-Kok; King, Katherine |
| 畢業年度 | 2005 |
| 附註項 | 318p |
| 關鍵詞 | Postcolonial; Burmese; Women's identities; Ma Ma Lay; Aung San Suu Kyi; Wendy Law-Yone; George Orwell; Law-Yone, Wendy; Orwell, George |
| 摘要 | Using Burma as a unifying example, this dissertation traces how gendered racial identities are articulated against each other. The Burmese women examined here write against their material and discursive “prisons” by using “flexible tactics of displacement” to counter competing systems of authority; Western ideologies and Burmese cultural signifiers become tools used to disrupt intersecting repressive hegemonies. Part I highlights the “damage” done to Burmese female subjectivities by Westernization and “modernity” by comparing George Orwell's Burmese Days to Ma Ma Lay's Not Out of Hate; Part II focuses on Aung San Suu Kyi and Wendy Law-Yone's Irrawaddy Tango to illustrate how Burmese women tactically and flexibly invoke the global/West to serve local and “minor” agendas. Maneuvering between Orientalism and globalization and demonstrating discursive dexterity in transnational circuits of power, Burmese women translate their discursive imprisonment into states of productive constraint. Chapter 1 demonstrates how Burmese Days illustrates the displacement of Burmese women and prefigures the rise of venal masculinity in contemporary Myanmar. The novel's portrait of Late British imperial Burma lays the foundation for Burmese women's invisibility and hypervisibility. Chapter 2 tracks how Not Out of Hate articulates writing and Buddhism as feminized spaces of resistance against a deleterious “modern” patriarchal paradigm that forces Burmese women and “tradition” into positions of subordination. Chapter 3 compares representations of Aung San Suu Kyi with how she writes herself. The Burmese democratic leader transforms androcentric paradigms to serve her agenda of change and reconciliation. Utilizing and deconstructing familiar notions of identity, nation, and gender, Aung San Suu Kyi tactically combines global and local discourses to articulate her “flexible” politics of resistance. Chapter 4 analyzes Wendy Law-Yone's portrayal of Third World women as survivors defying Western and Asian regimes of authority. Irrawaddy Tango explores how authority, cruelty, and oppression on both sides of the Pacific reflect each other. Law-Yone reframes “subaltern” agency and explicates the dilemma of crafting an ethnic minority subject position for Burmese in the West. In conclusion, I recap how Burmese women use diverse cultural grammars toward liberatory ends and outline how these narratives of Burma critique complacency, hegemony, and power. |
| ISBN | 0542134748; 9780542134746 |
| 點閱次數 | 410 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.11.25 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.03.25 |
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