Envisioning Taiwan - Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Envisioning Taiwan in a Changing World 1

1. Confronting the Other, Defining a Self: Hsiang-t’u Literature and the Emergence of a Taiwanese Nationalism 12

2. Toward the Postmodern: Taiwanese New Cinema and Alternative Visions of Nation 49

3. Remembering and Forgetting, Part I: History, Memory, and the Autobiographical Impulse 69

4. Remembering and Forgetting, Part II: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Taiwan Trilogy 85

5. Language and Nationhood: Culture as Social Contestation 131

6. The Country and the City: Modernization and Changing Apprehensions of Space and Time 181

7. Exile, Displacement, and Shifting Identities: Globalization and the Frontiers of Cultural Hybridity 211

Conclusion: From Nation to Dissemi-Nation: Postmodern Hybridization and Changing Conditions for the Representation of Identity 230

Notes 249

Bibliography 325

Index 345

Über den Autor / die Autorin

June Yip is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she has taught Chinese film.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: June Yip, Yip, June Yip, June Chun Yip
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.10.2004
• EAN: 9780822333579
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3357-9
• Seiten: 368
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Fotografie, Film, Video, TV; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien