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Writing Taiwan : a new literary history / edited by David Der-wei Wang & Carlos Rojas.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-Pacific.
- Asia-Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--Taiwan--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwanese literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present.
- Contents:
- Preface / David Der-wei Wang
- Introduction / Carlos Rojas
- Pt. 1. The limits of Taiwan literature. Representing Taiwan: shifting geopolitical frameworks / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang ; Postmodern or postcolonial? An inquiry into postwar Taiwanese literary history / Fangming Chen ; On the concept of Taiwan literature / Xiaobing Tang
- Pt. 2. Cultural politics. The importance of being perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931-1937 / Joyce C. H. Liu ; "On our destitute dinner table": Modern poetry quarterly in the 1950s / Michelle Yeh ; The literary development of Zhong Lihe and postcolonial discourse in Taiwan / Fenghuang Ying ; Wang Wenxing's Backed against the sea, parts I and II: the meaning of modernism in Taiwan's contemporary literature / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
- Pt. 3. History, truth, and textual artifice. The monster that is history: Jiang Gui's A tale of modern monsters / David Der-wei Wang ; Taiwanese identity and the crisis of memory: post-Chiang mystery / Yomi Braester ; Doubled configuration: reading Su Weizhen's theatricality / Gang Gary Xu ; Techniques behind lies and artistry of truth: writing about the writings of Zhang Dachun / Kim-chu Ng
- Pt. 4. 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 / Ping-hui Liao ; Mapping identity in postcolonial city: intertextuality and cultural hybridity in Zhu Tianxin's Ancient capital / Lingchei Letty Chen ; Li Yongping and spectral cartography / Carlos Rojas ; History, exchange, and the object voice: reading Li Ang's The strange garden and All sticks are welcome in the censer of Beigang / Chaoyang Liao ; Reenchanting the image in global culture: reification and nostalgia in Zhu Tianwen's fiction / Ban Wang
- Appendix: Chinese characters for author's names and titles of works.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822388579
- 082238857X
- OCLC:
- 262328119
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