Abstract
This paper examines three contemporary stories focusing on pregnancy and abortion, by contemporary Chinese women writers Zhong Ling (Taiwan), Tang Min (China), and Xi Xi (HK), in light of current feminist intervention into Michel Foucault’s theory of biopolitics. In particular, the paper turns to Elizabeth Grosz’ notion of corporal feminism and Julia Kristeva’s conceptual explorations on her theory of the abject in order to propose a notion of female creativity that is grounded within women’s bodily experiences and a notion of subjectivity that takes maternity as its epistemological model. The paper concludes with an extension of corporeal feminism to women’s writing in the area of cultural translation as mastering what Mary Zournasi has called “the art of foreignness.”
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