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Volpp, Sophie Ann Justine.

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The male queen: Boy actors and literati libertines.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The male queen: Boy actors and literati libertines./
Author:	Volpp, Sophie Ann Justine.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1995,
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4779.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-12A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9609911

The male queen: Boy actors and literati libertines.
Volpp, Sophie Ann Justine.

The male queen: Boy actors and literati libertines. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1995 - 273 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4779.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1995.

This dissertation, entitled "The Male Queen: Boy Actors and Literati Libertines," investigates the relations between actors and literati in seventeenth- century China. This study contributes to our understanding of the lives of the literati of the Ming-Qing transition, the cultural milieu of the theater of this period, and late-imperial conceptions of gender and sexuality.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.

The male queen: Boy actors and literati libertines.
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520 $a This dissertation, entitled "The Male Queen: Boy Actors and Literati Libertines," investigates the relations between actors and literati in seventeenth- century China. This study contributes to our understanding of the lives of the literati of the Ming-Qing transition, the cultural milieu of the theater of this period, and late-imperial conceptions of gender and sexuality.
520 $a In order to establish a conceptual framework with which to understand the erotic liaisons between actors and literati, I analyze the representation of homoeroticism in seventeenth-century texts. Scholars have argued that in late- imperial China the elite male was "bisexual," displaying a "blindness to gender" in his sexual preference. I argue that although individuals did engage in both homoerotic and heteroerotic behavior without a sense of internal conflict, the two modes were still at odds. The battle was not for the soul or psyche of an individual but in a more abstracted rivalry and mimicry of forms. I suggest that we provisionally adopt the playful description in these sources of sexuality as a "Way" (Dao) in order to explain the syncretic relationship in this period between homoeroticism and heteroeroticism.
520 $a The representation of male love both appropriates the conventions of heteroerotic romance and contests them, borrowing these conventions in order to supersede them. The rivalry between the two "Ways" takes the form of a contest between the sexes in Wang Jide's northern drama (zaju) "The Male Queen." The play pits a boy endowed with "natural femininity" against the palace women of the King of Linchuan. The text engages in complex games with its own theatricality, creating a parallel between the boy's seduction of the King and the actor's seduction of the spectator. The boy outranks the members of the female sex because he, like the actor, has the power to improvise his gender, controlling illusion and representation.
520 $a I establish a context for "The Male Queen" by examining poems written in tribute to boy actors, focusing on poems that document the passion between the literatus Chen Weisong and the actor Yunlang. Drawing upon the theoretical models of Rene Girard and Eve Sedgwick, I argue that these poems fashioned bonds among literati by negotiating the transfer of rights to the actor. The literatus's expression of desire for the actor is part flattery and part jest, prompted by the demands of the composition of occasional poetry. These poems follow "The Male Queen" in portraying the actor as an icon of femininity.
520 $a The stories of the anonymous collection Hairpins Beneath a Cap extend this argument, claiming that the feminine actor is superior to the female sex not merely because of his erotic charms but because he is more capable of loyalty and chastity than the members of the female sex. In arguing that the actor makes a superior woman, these stories seek to demonstrate that erotic relationships between men are capable of fulfilling the demands of Confucian ethics in a world in which women no longer uphold traditional moral codes.
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