Arthur Chu Retweeted Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
It's hard to get what you could unambiguously call a "feminist" reading of Mulan until Maxine Hong Kingston deliberately recontextualized it in her book - that's why the original Disney movie renders her surname "Fa" (the Cantonese version of herhttps://twitter.com/jeannette_ng/status/1379637766040997890 …
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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 @jeannette_ng
I think a lot about how mythology and folklore get used out of their own context.
I don't even mean when they're appropriated or exoticised (though these examples are undoubtedly plentiful) but just when people move away, cultures change and context is lost. https://twitter.com/jeannette_ng/status/947021876450115585 …
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