| Status | 已發表Published |
| An (in)visible letter | |
Lo, Y. Y. P.
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| 2012-05-20 | |
| Source Publication | An (in)visible letter
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| Publication Place | Reykjavik |
| Abstract | This paper takes the form of a letter, a prevalent genre practiced by many women across cultures, and manifestly by some women in the nushu region. Exclusively used by women in Shangjiangxu Township, Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China, nushu, women’s script, is believed to be created by women. Through generations of practices with this matriarchal script in writing letters, wedding missives, biographies and autobiographies, some women had defined for themselves positive terms in the contexts they lived. Addressing to a deceased elderly woman whom I visited three times in the region in the span of five years, the writing covers accounts of the women’s practice, interwoven with the cultural discourse, mainly women’s art and literary practices, and philosophy from the West. Whilst bringing forward a forgotten culture and seeking the possibility of articulating one’s desires, the writing opens up a dialogue connecting women in the practice of chanting, writing and drawing, across cultures, space and time. |
| Keyword | nushu women’s script matriarchal script letter writing autobiography practice of writing practice of drawing art utterance sexual difference |
| Language | 英語English |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 8460 |
| Document Type | Conference paper |
| Collection | Faculty of Education |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Lo, Y. Y. P.. An (in)visible letter[C], Reykjavik, 2012. |
| APA | Lo, Y. Y. P..(2012). An (in)visible letter. An (in)visible letter. |
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