She is one and all – writing nushu, women’s script in an autobiography

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	She is one and all – writing nushu, women’s script in an autobiography
	Lo, Y. Y. P.
	2013-03-01
Source Publication	New Writing 10th Anniversary Collection
ISSN	1479-0726
Pages	374-395
Abstract	Nushu, women’s script, is believed to be created and practiced exclusively by some women for some hundred years in Shangjiangxu Township, Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China. Through a set of unique matriarchal script, some women had developed a tradition of storytelling, orally in chants, in embroidery, and in written form. They had produced abundant records of their stories in the form of either a biography or an autobiography, which shows a valid representation of their genealogy, a vital condition informing women’s identity. I am taking the form of an autobiography, an interdisciplinary practice, as a disrupting challenge of conventions to reveal fragments of the stories of some women I visited in the region. With a singular ‘she’ throughout the writing that represents a collective memory of some women, I have explored to resist from all patriarchal definitions and appropriations: she is fluid, she is in flux, she is multiple, and she cannot be fixed.
Keyword	Nushu matriarchal script women autobiography sexual difference
Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	10098
Document Type	Journal article
Collection	Faculty of Education
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Lo, Y. Y. P.. She is one and all – writing nushu, women’s script in an autobiography[J]. New Writing 10th Anniversary Collection, 2013, 374-395.
APA	Lo, Y. Y. P..(2013). She is one and all – writing nushu, women’s script in an autobiography. New Writing 10th Anniversary Collection, 374-395.
MLA	Lo, Y. Y. P.."She is one and all – writing nushu, women’s script in an autobiography".New Writing 10th Anniversary Collection (2013):374-395.

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