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Tuesday
09
JUL

01:00 PM

Under and Beyond Western Eyes

Paola ZAMPERINI

One of the most fraught debates in anglophone feminism, ever since the 1970s and the rise of women of color and third-world women’s feminisms, focuses on how to debunk the oppressive centrality of whitestream feminism, which equates the universals of concepts such as “women” and “women’s struggles” to those experienced by white upper-middle class women, without acknowledgement of and engagement with intersectional identities informed by class, race, ethnicity, and so on. In this lecture we will discuss and explore possible alternatives to white stream feminisms in the Anglophone through the lens of feminist postcolonial theories.

Paola Zamperini is Associate Professor in Chinese Literature and Culture, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago. She has written and published extensively about representations of prostitution, female suicide, fashion theory and history, pornography, and spiritual resonance, in Chinese literature and culture and beyond, including the sinophone worlds in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and elsewhere e.g. Lost Bodies. Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction. She has recently completed her manuscript Sinopornologies. Writing Sex in Late Imperial Fiction and is currently working on a monograph on gambling and gender, and another on fashion and desire in early modern literature.

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Institut für Sinologie

010.01.05

Voßstraße 2

69115 Heidelberg

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https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/research/tls

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This year’s Taiwan Lecture Series is devoted to questioning Sinophone Authenticities from cross-sectional perspectives. Approaching the topic In Search for Home—Authenticity and Chineseness in Taiwan and the SinophoneWworld, it will consist of four sections, and offer views from art, politics, literature and gender studies. It will begin with a section “Contesting Home—Artistic Renderings” with Taiwan Sound and Visual Artist, FENG Chi-han (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a second section on “Post-Chineseness in Taiwan Politics” with SHIH Chih-yu (National Taiwan University), a third on “Travel Writing and Taiwan Identities” with LIN Shu-hui (National Taiwan Normal University), and a last on “Homing Feminism in the Sinophone World” with Paola ZAMPERINI (Northwestern University).

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