Envisioning Taiwan : fiction, cinema, and the nation in the cultural imaginary / June Yip.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yip, June Chun, 1962-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Asia-Pacific.

Asia-Pacific: culture, politics, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huang, Chunming, 1935---Criticism and interpretation.

Huang, Chunming.

Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947---Criticism and interpretation.

Hou, Xiaoxian.

Popular culture--Taiwan.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination.

Contents:

Confronting the other, defining a self : Hsiang-t'u literature and the emergence of a Taiwanese nationalism

Toward the postmodern : Taiwanese new cinema and alternative visions of nation

Remembering and forgetting, part I: history, memory, and the autobiographical impulse

Remembering and forgetting, part II : Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwan trilogy

Language and nationhood : culture as social contestation

The country and the city : modernization and changing apprehensions of space and time

Exile, displacement, and shifting identities : globalization and the frontiers of cultural hybridity

Conclusion : from nation to dissemi-nation : postmodern hybridization and changing conditions for the representation of identity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

9780822386391

0822386399

OCLC:

654609259