Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary

by Fran Martin, Masao Miyoshi, Rey Chow, et al.

Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine experience. She argues that a temporal logic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234680X
• ISBN13: 9780822346807
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"