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Informationen zum Autor David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas, eds. Klappentext The first comprehensive study in English of the cultural and literary dynamics of Taiwan from 1945, when Taiwan was returned to China after half-a-century of Japanese colonial rule, to date. Zusammenfassung 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. 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...
