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DR Cosima Bruno's Outputs (4)

Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018) (2023)
Thesis
Wan, F. Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis aims to investigate how the internet has permeated manifestations of young urban women’s sociality and creativity in mainland China over the past two decades, by exploring the “Strong Women Narrative”, one of the most popular and represent... Read More about Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018).

Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers (2023)
Thesis
Zhan, F. Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the representations of women’s pains, subjectivities and motherdaughter relationships in fictional writing published between 1980 and 2020 by Chinese women writers. More specifically, this project addresses three issues prominent... Read More about Pain, Mother-daughter Relationships, and Subjectivity in Post-1980 Fictions by Chinese Women Writers.

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema (2022)
Thesis
Yeung, S. Y. Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This project offers the framework of “semiotics of allegory” as an alternative to Fredric Jameson’s national allegory for studying non-Western cultural products by emphasising their plural meanings of signs and the importance of situating their readi... Read More about Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema.