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Informationen zum Autor Fran Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture and a co-editor of AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities; Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures; and Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience. She argues that a temporal logic dominates depictions of female homoeroticism, and she traces that logic across texts produced and consumed in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan during the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. Attentive to both transnational cultural flows and local particularities, Martin shows how loving relations between women in mass culture are usually represented as past experiences. Adult protagonists revel in the repeated, mournful narration of their memories. Yet these portrayals do not simply or finally consign the same-sex loving woman to the past-they also cause her to reappear ceaselessly in the present.As Martin explains, memorial schoolgirl love stories are popular throughout contemporary Chinese cultures. The same-sex attracted young woman appears in both openly homophobic and proudly queer-affirmative narratives, as well as in stories whose ideological valence is less immediately clear. Martin demonstrates that the stories, television programs, and films she analyzes are not idiosyncratic depictions of marginal figures, but manifestations of a broader, mainstream cultural preoccupation. Her investigation of representations of same-sex love between women sheds new light on contemporary Chinese understandings of sex, love, gender, marriage, and the cultural ordering of human life. Zusammenfassung An analysis of the dominant patterns in the representation of erotic and romantic love between women in contemporary film! television! and fiction from China! Hong Kong and Taiwan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Note on Translations and Transliterations xi Introduction: Love and Remembrance 1 1. Tragic Romance: The Chinese Going-In Story 29 2. Voluble Ellipsis: Second-Wave Schoolgirl Romance in Taiwan and Hong Kong 49 3. Postsocialist Melancholia: "Blue Sky Green Sky" 75 4. No Future: Tomboy Melodrama 93 5. Television as Public Mourning: Taiwan's Sad Young Women 118 6. Critical Presentism: New Chinese Lesbian Cinema 147 Epilogue 180 Appendix: Interview with Shi Tou 187 Character List 199 Notes 205 Filmography 255 Selected Bibliography 259 Index 281...
