Reconstructing the gendered subaltern subject: Chinese rural migrant women in literary translation.

As a significant embodiment of Chinese subalternity, the subject formation of rural migrant women presents the multiple power dynamics emerging in the course of modernisation, industrialisation and urbanisation in post-reform China. Northern Girls, a novel written by contemporary Chinese female writ...

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Publicado en:Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 621 - 636
Autor principal: Dong, Yijia
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2024
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        Chinese literature
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        Gender stereotypes
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