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Female Masculinity in Rhetorical Encounters: The Juxtapositional Recontextualization of Tomboy and Nü Hanzi

Zhuang, Chulin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1482431222336284

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2017, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This thesis focuses on the representation and performance of female masculinity in the U.S. and China from a comparative rhetorical and cross-cultural perspective, taking Tomboy and Nü Hanzi (tough girl/lady, manly woman) as examples. To enact a better understanding of female masculinity in its diverse and indigenous contexts, the current study utilizes the “art of recontextualization” through the juxtapositional comparison between Tomboy and Nü Hanzi, seeking to create an in-between space and open up reciprocal dialogues in which both subjects can be better informed. Apart from reviewing how Tomboy and Nü Hanzi are contextualized respectively, I further conduct a critical discourse analysis on Nü Hanzi in the Chinese news media as a way to fill the “emic” knowledge gap. Based on the review and analysis, the two cases are brought together and engaged in cross-cultural dialogues, which sheds light on the complexity, contingency, temporality, and rhetorical underpinnings of female masculinity. It is hoped that the study can also provide some potential implications for the field of Composition and Rhetoric.
LuMing Mao (Committee Chair)
Jason Palmeri (Committee Member)
Yu-Fang Cho (Committee Member)
84 p.
Comparative; Composition; Gender Studies; Linguistics
comparative rhetoric; female masculinity

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  • Zhuang, C. (2017). Female Masculinity in Rhetorical Encounters: The Juxtapositional Recontextualization of Tomboy and Nü Hanzi [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1482431222336284

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zhuang, Chulin. Female Masculinity in Rhetorical Encounters: The Juxtapositional Recontextualization of Tomboy and Nü Hanzi . 2017. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1482431222336284.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zhuang, Chulin. "Female Masculinity in Rhetorical Encounters: The Juxtapositional Recontextualization of Tomboy and Nü Hanzi ." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1482431222336284

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