This research is concerned primarily with a narrative writing space that, despite many followers around the world, it is still largely under-studied. Within a few years, Chinese novels with sexual content targeting readers have become one of the most profitable products in the cultural industry. Consumers of these stories are not just men anymore. Therefore, many (legal or illegal) reading forums have emerged on the Internet. Female readers can have direct and open conversation with each other and authors on these forums. These writings thus play a crucial role in exploring women’s sexualities and bringing new expectations to the LGBT community. More and more women have successfully evaded the strict censorship, and they publish their stories on the Internet. The readers can read these stories on the forum, or they can post comments and spread them on other websites. However, the victory of this cultural sector means that the government has taken more and more measures in ideological control. Therefore, women’s writing has fallen into a continuous struggle among the censorship mechanism, market demand and readers’ demands. The purpose of this paper is to study in detail the conditions of text production, circulation, interpretation and co-creation of female authors-readers, and to emphasize their strategies to avoid censorship on the creation of text classification labels or keywords and the writing itself. _x000D_ Our research also analyzes the myth of Nü Wa as the basis of literary space, and its novels can be understood as rewriting all aspects of it. Nü Wa, who has a female bust and a snake tail, is the Great Mother who created all human beings and the Great Goddess who protected her creations from floods by virtue of supernatural forces. Although traditional Chinese literature focuses on women’s breasts (ideal femininity) and excludes the snake tail, symbol of threatening femininity (promiscuity, brutality, aggression, etc.), the women’s writings on the Internet include the darkest and most dangerous of femininity, and provide a space that does not exist so far to explore the sexuality of women and minority communities. The texts we analyze here discards the myth of Nü Wa confiscated by the patriarchy, reinterprets the androcentric history, reveals the hidden discourses, provides new representations, parody the dominant masculinity and questions the stereotypes related to women. In this study, we aim to discover and interpret the hidden discourses through the analysis of the myth of Nü Wa.
Reescrituras femeninas de Nü Wa en la web: metamorfosis y apropiaciones de la Gran Diosa
Xu, T. (Author). 16 Dec 2022
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis