Sirui, Fang (2025) Feminist Temporality And The Future: Negotiating Gender, Race, And Agency In Chinese American And Malaysian Chinese Supernatural Fiction. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Abstract
Supernatural fiction has emerged as a significant literary genre in the field of Chinese American and Malaysian Chinese literature written by female writers in English. To address this evolving genre, this dissertation examines how female characters, including female protagonists, ghosts, and spirit mediums, exercise agency to pave the way towards the feminist future by engaging with their patriarchal and racialised past and present in the four novels: two Chinese American supernatural novels, Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) and Shawna Yang Ryan’s Water Ghosts (2009), and two Malaysian Chinese supernatural novels, Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride (2013) and Zen Cho’s Black Water Sister (2021). To achieve three research objectives, the dissertation provides a research framework that integrates two qualitative methodologies—including textual analysis and feminist rhetorical criticism—with Elizabeth Grosz’s theory of feminist temporality and Steven Hitlin and Glen H. Elder’s theory of temporal agency.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) |
| Divisions: | Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan (School of Humanities) > Thesis |
| Depositing User: | Mr Aizat Asmawi Abdul Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2026 08:33 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2026 08:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usm.my/id/eprint/64944 |
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