Beschreibung
Nora, a character from Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll House, was a model for liberal-thinking Chinese women during the May Fourth Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Nora-like figures appeared often in modern Chinese literature to illustrate the issue of women’s emancipation. Casting Off the Shackles of Family explores the reception and transformation of the Nora theme in the works of Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and other May Fourth writers. In particular, it uses female heroic journey theories to trace women’s pursuit of independence and freedom in modern China.
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The Author: Shuei-may Chang is Associate Professor at the National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan. She won the Phi Tao Phi Scholastic Award in 1986 and she received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994.
