Writing Taiwan A New Literary History Asia Pacific Culture Politics and Society 1st Edition by David Derwei Wang, Carlos Rojas ISBN 082238857X 9780822388579

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ISBN 10: 082238857X

ISBN 13: 9780822388579

Author:  David Der-wei Wang, Carlos Rojas 

Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) 1st Edition: Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The diversity of Taiwan literature is signaled by the range of authors treated, including Yang Chichang, who studied Japanese literature in Tokyo in the early 1930s and wrote all of his own poetry and fiction in Japanese; Li Yongping, an ethnic Chinese born in Malaysia and educated in Taiwan and the United States; and Liu Daren, who was born in mainland China and effectively exiled from Taiwan in the 1970s on account of his political activism.

Because the island of Taiwan spent the first half of the century as a colony of Japan and the second half in an umbilical relationship to China, its literature challenges basic assumptions about what constitutes a “national literature.” Several contributors directly address the methodological and epistemological issues involved in writing about “Taiwan literature.” Other contributors investigate the cultural and political grounds from which specific genres and literary movements emerged. Still others explore themes of history and memory in Taiwan literature and tropes of space and geography, looking at representations of boundaries as well as the boundary-crossing global flows of commodities and capital. Like Taiwan’s history, modern Taiwan literature is rife with conflicting legacies and impulses. Writing Taiwan reveals a sense of its richness and diversity to English-language readers.

Contributors. Yomi Braester, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Fangming Chen, Lingchei Letty Chen, Chaoyang Liao, Ping-hui Liao, Joyce C. H. Liu, Kim-chu Ng, Carlos Rojas, Xiaobing Tang, Ban Wang, David Der-wei Wang, Gang Gary Xu, Michelle Yeh, Fenghuang Ying

 

Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part One: The Limits of Taiwan Literature

• Representing Taiwan: Shifting Geopolitical Frameworks
  • Notes
• Postmodern or Postcolonial? An Inquiry into Postwar Taiwanese Literary History
  • Postwar or Recolonized?
  • Modernism and Nativism
  • Postmodern or Postcolonial?
  • Notes
• On the Concept of Taiwan Literature
  • Toward Taiwan Literature: Zizhu Xing in the 1980s
  • Subjectivity and the Right of Interpretation: Zhuti Xing in the 1990s
  • An Inconclusive Conclusion
  • Notes

Part Two: Cultural Politics

• The Importance of Being Perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931–1937
  • Notes
• “On Our Destitute Dinner Table”: Modern Poetry Quarterly in the 1950s
  • Contention Between Modern and Traditional Poetry
  • Modern Poetry and the Official Discourse of Anticommunism
  • Modernist Habitus
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• The Literary Development of Zhong Lihe and Postcolonial Discourse in Taiwan
  • The 1970s: Social Consciousness and Zhong Lihe’s Works
  • The 1980s: Chinese Ethnic Identity and Zhong Lihe’s Works
  • Notes
• Wang Wenxing’s Backed Against the Sea, Parts I and II: The Meaning of Modernism in Taiwan’s Contemporary Literature
  • Modernist and Postmodernist Trends in Taiwan
  • Backed Against the Sea, Part I
  • Backed Against the Sea, Part II
  • Conclusion
  • Notes

Part Three: History, Truth, and Textual Artifice

• The Monster That Is History: Jiang Gui’s A Tale of Modern Monsters
  • A Tale of Modern Monsters
  • An Idle Commentary on Monsters
  • A Compendium of Monsters
  • Notes
• Taiwanese Identity and the Crisis of Memory: Post-Chiang Mystery
  • The Purple Smoke of Time
  • A Testimony Unspoken
  • Testimony and Exile
  • The Narrator as Detective
  • Textual Violence
  • The Cry of Blood
  • Exile from History
  • May Fourth and Taiwanese Identity
  • Notes
• Doubled Configuration: Reading Su Weizhen’s Theatricality
  • Notes
• Techniques Behind Lies and the Artistry of Truth: Writing About the Writings of Zhang Dachun
  • Metalies, or the Artistry of Truth
  • If… Then What?
  • Conclusion: Representational Strategies of a Powerless Representer and the “Taiwanese Experience”
  • Notes

Part Four: Spectral Topographies and Circuits of Desire

• Travel in Early-Twentieth-Century Asia: On Wu Zhuoliu’s Nanking Journals and His Notion of Taiwan’s Alternative Modernity
  • Exotic Memories of Familiar and Unfamiliar Places
  • Travels in China
  • Travel and Diasporic Mediation/Meditation
  • The Resident Traveler
  • Comparative Study in Cultures
  • Alternative Modernity and Discrepant Cosmopolitanisms
  • Notes
• Mapping Identity in a Postcolonial City: Intertextuality and Cultural Hybridity in Zhu Tianxin’s Ancient Capital
  • Grand Cultural China vs. Small Island Taiwan
  • Confronting Cultural Hybridity in Ancient Capital
  • Notes
• Li Yongping and Spectral Cartography
  • Motherlands and Maternities
  • Paternities and Expatriatisms
  • Notes
• History, Exchange, and the Object Voice: Reading Li Ang’s The Strange Garden and All Sticks Are Welcome in the Censer of Beigang
  • Notes
• Reenchanting the Image in Global Culture: Reification and Nostalgia in Zhu Tianwen’s Fiction
  • Reification and Disenchantment
  • Nostalgia and Mourning
  • Sailing to Utopia
  • Reenchantment of Objects

 

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