Strange Spirits : – Possession and the queering of gender and other social positions in Yuan Mei’s Zibuyu.

This thesis explores a Qing dynasty collection of stories about ghosts and other strange events written by Yuan Mei (1716–1798). The thesis focuses on a number of stories about possession of living persons by spirits, which are studied with the help of Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology. By studying s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Määttä, Maarit
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen 2020
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-411564