Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma
Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma
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重塑缅甸的妇女、殖民主义和现代性
DOI：
10.21313/hawaii/9780824834616.001.0001
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发表时间：
2011
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0.9
通讯作者：
C. Ikeya
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作者：
C. Ikeya
《重塑缅甸的女性、殖民主义和现代性》首次研究了殖民时期缅甸公共话语中最普遍、最关键的话题之一：“khit kala”——“时代的女性”——她们在20世纪20年代突然出现在小说、报纸和广告的封面和页面上。她受过良好的教育，又被政治化，挣钱又消费，“缅甸人”又“西方化”，她体现了现代时代的可能性和挑战，以及由此引发的希望和恐惧。池谷彻在《重新塑造女性》一书中探讨了这些变化和竞争的女性形象揭示了缅甸殖民时期的现代性经历。她整理了大量迄今为止未经审查的缅甸语资料，分析了“吉特卡拉”女性的话语形象，以及实际女性的选择和行动——无论是追求高等教育，从政，还是采用新衣服和新发型——打破了现有的规范，并使“吉特卡拉”女性成为辩论殖民主义、现代化和民族主义的特权习语。这本书是第一本将性别作为持续分析范畴的缅甸社会史，《重塑女性》挑战了主流的民族主义和反殖民主义的历史叙事，这种叙事在概念和制度上都是单一的殖民现代性，使缅甸的民族主义和仇外心理不可避免地兴起。该研究展示了殖民地遭遇的不可减少的异质性，并引起人们对世界主义和民族主义的共同发展的关注。池谷阐明了缅甸男人和女人作为文化掮客和现代性代理人所扮演的重要角色。她展示了他们与社会改革、女权主义、反殖民主义、媒体和消费主义的复杂接触如何在宗教、种族和民族方面重新阐明了归属感和异域性的界限。《重塑女性》极大地增加了对殖民地区性别和种族关系、现代化和民族主义的考察。它将引起广大读者的兴趣，尤其是那些在东南亚研究、殖民和后殖民研究、文化研究以及妇女和性别研究领域工作的人。
Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma presents the first study of one of the most prevalent and critical topics of public discourse in colonial Burma: the woman of the khit kala--""the woman of the times""--who burst onto the covers and pages of novels, newspapers, and advertisements in the 1920s. Educated and politicised, earner and consumer, ""Burmese"" and ""Westernised,"" she embodied the possibilities and challenges of the modern era, as well as the hopes and fears it evoked. In Refiguring Women , Chie Ikeya interrogates what these shifting and competing images of the feminine reveal about the experience of modernity in colonial Burma. She marshals a wide range of hitherto unexamined Burmese language sources to analyse both the discursive figurations of the woman of the khit kala and the choices and actions of actual women who--whether pursuing higher education, becoming political, or adopting new clothes and hairstyles--unsettled existing norms and contributed to making the woman of the khit kala the privileged idiom for debating colonialism, modernisation, and nationalism. The first book-length social history of Burma to utilise gender as a category of sustained analysis, Refiguring Women challenges the reigning nationalist and anticolonial historical narratives of a conceptually and institutionally monolithic colonial modernity that made inevitable the rise of ethnonationalism and xenophobia in Burma. The study demonstrates the irreducible heterogeneity of the colonial encounter and draws attention to the conjoined development of cosmopolitanism and nationalism. Ikeya illuminates the important roles that Burmese men and women played as cultural brokers and agents of modernity. She shows how their complex engagements with social reform, feminism, anticolonialism, media, and consumerism rearticulated the boundaries of belonging and foreignness in religious, racial, and ethnic terms. Refiguring Women adds significantly to examinations of gender and race relations, modernisation, and nationalism in colonised regions. It will be of interest to a broad audience--not least those working in the fields of Southeast Asian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and women's and gender studies.