Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆
RAM Conversation：The Gender Myth in All Ages RAM对谈 : 从古至今：性别之神话
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About the Conversation 关于对谈
In the mythology of the Dominican Republic, Ciguapa is described as a kind of female creature with brown or dark blue skin. Gorgeous and yet cold-blooded, they would occupy the highlands and recklessly kill travelers who dare set foot in the place. Based on the myth, artist Firelei Baez presented a series of paintings featuring Ciguapa in the exhibition. Drawing inspirations from science fiction as well as her aesthetical vision, the artist managed to remodel the ancient folk legend into a contemporary mythological narrative of individuality.
Professor Lin Danya of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Xiamen University, and Zhu Xueqin, gender studies researcher, are invited to join the conversation and share with audience changes and developments witnessed by Chinese folk customs as well as male and female figures in Chinese mythologies during the course of history. They will talk about how the image of social gender has been established in ancient mythology, pre-modern society and the revolutionary history as well as the cultural ideologies, gender conceptions and narrative strategies behind it. Moreover, the conversation will explore into the gender narratives emerging in the contemporary mass culture and network media (i.e. web series and online romance novels), attempting to cast light on the mainstream gender conceptions through the analysis of the popular figures.
在多明尼加共和国神话中，Ciguapa（西卦帕豹）被描述为一种具有棕色或深蓝色皮肤的女性生物。她们的形象美艳而残酷，占据高地并肆意猎杀贸然涉足的旅行者。基于这一神话文本，本次展览艺术家菲瑞蕾·巴埃斯（Firelei Baez）创作了一系列以Ciguapa（西卦帕豹）为题材的绘画作品。在这些作品中，艺术家于自身的审美旨趣与科学幻想中汲取灵感，将这一古老的民俗传说重制为一种个人的当代神话的叙事。
本次对谈我们将邀请厦门大学中文系教授林丹娅与社会性/别研究学者朱雪琴，分享中国民俗及神话人物的男/女性性别形象在历史中所经历的变化，讨论从古代神话到前现代社会、直至革命历史中，社会性别形象是如何被构建的，以及背后所涉及的文化形态、性别观念和叙事策略。对谈还将延伸至当代大众文化工业及网络媒体（比如流行网剧、言情小说等）中存在的性别叙事，试图从这些极受欢迎的人物形象分析中揭示当下大众的性别观念。
About the Speakers 关于讲者
LIN Danya, Professor and doctoral advisor at Xiamen University’s Chinese Department, also vice chairman of the Fujian Writer’s Association, chairman of the Xiamen Writers Association, as well as vice president of the China Women’s Literature Committee. Her main research interests are Chinese contemporary literature and the issue of gender in literary culture. Published works include A History of Contemporary Chinese Women's Literature, Think with Your Toes, On Distinguishing Writing, Using Pain to Imagine, and The Buildings of Kulangsu. Lin also served as chief editor of the educational text A Coursebook on Women’s Literature, part of China’s Eleventh Five-Year Plan, as well as of A History of Women’s Literature in Taiwan, a significant work in the Chinese literary canon.
林丹娅，厦门大学中文系教授、博士生导师，兼任福建省作家协会副主席、厦门市作家协会主席、中国女性文学委员会副会长等，主要研究方向为中国现当代文学、性别与文学文化。出版《当代中国女性文学史论》《用脚趾思想》《书写之辨》《用痛感想象》《鼓浪屿建筑》等著述，主编国家十一五规划教材《女性文学教程》、国家重点图书《台湾女性文学史》等。
朱雪琴，社会性/ 别研究学者。