Mine Krause / Yan Sun / Michael Steppat
Honor, Face, and Violence
Cross-Cultural Literary Representations
of Honor Cultures and Face Cultures
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ISSN 0945-9588
ISBN 978-3-631-78906-3 (Print)
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DOI 10.3726/b17278
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About the authors
Mine Krause holds Ph.D. degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of Bayreuth (Germany) and from the University of Pau (France). She is a researcher in the Center for Intercultural Dialogue.
Yan Sun holds a doctorate in Literature and a postgraduate degree in Law. She is a senior lecturer at Shanghai International Studies University and visiting scholar at The City University of New York (CUNY).
Michael Steppat is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Bayreuth. He is a regular visiting professor at Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai.
About the book
Honor-related values are a source of gendered inequality and of violence. In so-called honor cultures, traditionally located in parts of the Middle East, Mediterranean regions, North Africa, and South America, honor translates into women’s roles as dictated by family ideology. There is a direct link between male reputation and the female body. In these matters, East Asian face cultures are similar to but also different from honor cultures. For the first time, this book studies literary together with sociological representations of the loss of honor and of face. Fiction explores honor-based values which impose shackles not only on female but also on male society members. The book is endorsed with prefaces by Turkish writer Sema Kaygusuz and Chinese scholar Ma Chi.
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Contents
Marginal or representative conditions? (I)
Marginal or representative conditions? (II)
Are writers instruments of a power system?
Marginal or representative conditions? (III)
Between dignity and honor: A troubled heritage
Introduction to honor cultures: Gender-specific, collectivistic honor
1.1 Sources of female honor violation
