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Gaze and Oppositional Gaze in Mr. Tang’s Girls
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.03.001
School of Translation Studies, Shandong University, Weihai, China
The gaze is a means of power that can flow through family relationships. It has intense regulatory overtones. In her short story Mr. Tang’s Girls, Malaysian-Chinese Anglophone diasporic writer Shirley Geok-lin Lim shows the conflict between Eastern and Western cultures and the resistance of women under the oppression of patriarchy through the portrayal of the father, Ah Kong, and the eldest daughter, Kim Li. Based on Foucault’s discipline gaze and Hooks’ oppositional gaze, this article analyzes the power operation in the story from the following three aspects: the male gaze, discipline and self-discipline, and the oppositional gaze. Kim Li’s subjective image of breaking free from male ownership control has been presented. It suggests the difficulties encountered by female groups in their rebellion against the male gaze and their pursuit of freedom and emancipation. It also reflects the tragedy of awakening women’s destinies under the dual oppression of patriarchy and the East-Westen cultural conflict.
Mr. Tang’s Girls, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, gaze, oppositional gaze
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, March 2024, Vol. 14, No. 3, 177-185
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