Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan - Freedom in the Trenches

The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches characterizes Taiwan's postwar modernist literature as Cold War modernism par excellence that was born out of a constellation of Cold War circumstances, amounting to a perfect storm for its emergence.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: "Speech after Long Silence": The 1956 Manifesto and the Obscure(d) Beginnings of a Cold War Modernism
Chapter Two: A Double-edged Sword?: the Rise of the Soldier-Poets and Their Modernist Turn
Chapter Three: Breaking Ground in Splendid Isolation: Death of a Stone Cell and Cold War Ethos
Chapter Four: Two States of One Peculiar Modernism: From the US-Aided Literary Establishment to the Culture of US Aids
Chapter Five: At Home in Exile: The Cold War Modernist, the Expatriate, and the Literature of Exile
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Li-Chun Hsiao is professor at Waseda University in Tokyo.

Summary

The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches characterizes Taiwan's postwar modernist literature as Cold War modernism par excellence that was born out of a constellation of Cold War circumstances, amounting to a perfect storm for its emergence.

Product details

• Authors: Li-Chun Hsiao, Hsiao Li-Chun
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781498569095
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6909-5
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, Politics & government, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000