WHAT HANGS ON A HAIRPIN: INALIENABLE POSSESSION AND LANGUAGE EXCHANGE IN TWO MARRIAGE ROMANCES

被引：3
作者：
Wang, Yuanfei [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Southern Calif, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA
来源：
MING STUDIES | 2021年 / 2021卷 / 84期
关键词：
hairpins; inalienable possession; materiality; marriage romance; language exchange; classical poetry; marriage laws; props; women's identities; OBJECTS;
D O I：
10.1080/0147037X.2021.1896866
中图分类号：
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号：
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要：
This paper discusses the figuration of the purple jade hairpin as inalienable possession in the Tang author Jiang Fang's (792-835) marriage romance "Huo Xiaoyu's story" and the Ming playwright Tang Xianzu's (1550-1616) dramatic adaptation of the story, The Purple Hairpins (1595). Examining how the hairpin's materiality and symbolism intersects with the tradition of classical poetry and marriage laws, the paper shows opposing poetics - the critical and the lyrical - of the two marriage romances. Whereas the selling of the hairpin in the Tang romance indicates the loss of Huo Xiaoyu's identity and the culture of romance - a true social order of exogamy based upon language exchange - the circulation of her hairpins in The Purple Hairpins authenticates her identity and the culture of romance.
引用
收藏
页码：3 / 28
页数：26
相关论文
共 43 条
  • [1] [Anonymous], 1975, REAL PROPERTY NUTSHE
  • [2] [Anonymous], 1995, MONUMENTALITY EARLY
  • [3] Bai Juyi., 2008, BAI JY JI JI
  • [4] Bender Mark., 2019, OBJECTS FRONTIERS MO, P174
  • [5] Bossler Beverly., 2016, Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity
  • [6] Gan Bao, 1979, SOUSHEN JI
  • [7] He Zhizhang., NO ONE KNOWS WHO CUT
  • [8] Ko Dorothy., 1994, TEACHERS INNER CHAMB
  • [9] Symbolic Meanings of Valued Personal Objects in Identity Transitions of Late Adulthood
    Kroger, Jane
    Adair, Vivienne
    [J]. IDENTITY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORY AND RESEARCH, 2008, 8 (01): : 5 - 24
  • [10] Le Yong., 2000, SHI JING
12345