Wang / Rojas / Chow Writing Taiwan

A New Literary History
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8857-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, David Der-wei

Rojas, Carlos

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface / David Der-wei Wang vii

Introduction / Carlos Rojas 1

Part One: The Limits of Taiwan Literature

1. Representing Taiwan: Shifting Geopolitical Frameworks / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 17

2. Postmodern or Postcolonial? An Inquiry into Postwar Taiwanese Literary History / Fangming Chen 26

3. On the Concept of Taiwan Literature / Xiaobing Tang 51

Part Two: Cultural Politics

4. The Importance of Being Perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931–1937 / Joyce C. H. Liu 93

5. “On Our Destitute Dinner Table”: Modern Poetry Quarterly in the 1950s / Michelle Yeh 113

6. The Literary Development of Zhong Lihe and Postcolonial Discourse in Taiwan / Fenghuang Ying 140

7. Wang Wenxing’s Backed against the Sea, Parts I and II: The Meaning of Modernism in Taiwan’s Contemporary Literature / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 156

Part Three: History, Truth, and Textual Artifice

8. The Monster That Is History: Jiang Gui’s A Tale of Modern Monsters / David Der-wei Wang 181

9. Taiwanese Identity and the Crisis of Memory: Post-Chiang Mystery / Yomi Braester 213

10. Doubled Configuration: Reading Su Weizhen’s Theatricality / Gang Gary Xu 233

11. Techniques behind Lies and the Artistry of Truth: Writing about the Writings of Zhang Dachun / Kim-chu Ng 253

Part Four: Spectral Topographies and Circuits of Desire

12. Travel in Early-Twentieth-Century Asia: On Wu Zhuoliu’s “Nanking Journals” and His Notion of Taiwan’s Alternative Modernity / Ping-hui Liao 285

13. Mapping Identity in a Postcolonial City: Intertextuality and Cultural Hybridity in Zhu Tianxin’s Ancient Capital / Lingchei Letty Chen 301

14. Li Yongping and Spectral Cartography / Carlos Rojas 324

15. 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 348

16. Reenchanting the Image in Global Culture: Reification and Nostalgia in Zhu Tianwen’s Fiction / Ban Wang 370

Appendix: Chinese Characters for Authors’ Names and Titles of Works 389

Contributors 395

Index 397

Über Autor(innen)

David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China.Carlos Rojas is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Film at the University of Florida.