Running Mother and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Songfen Guo. Translated by John Balcom Klappentext Guo Songfen plays with the hazards of miscommunication! the arbitrary nature of fate! and the malevolence of human motivation! while also grappling with recent Taiwanese history and its traumas! such as the struggle to determine past! present! and future forms of identity. In "Running Mother!" a man reflects on his relationship with his mother! who has been alternately close and distant in childhood and adulthood. "Moon Seal" follows a woman caught between traditional and modern worlds. In "Wailing Moon!" a wife reflects on her marriage at her husband's funeral. "Snow Blind" explores feelings of powerlessness during different historical periods through the character of a man who is unable to overcome his inertia! and "Brightly Shine the Stars Tonight" centers on the February 28th Incident. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Guo Songfen! Taiwan's "Lost" ModernistMoon SealWailing MoonRunning MotherCloverSnow BlindBrightly Shine the Stars Tonight

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• Authors: Professor Songfen Guo, Songfen Guo, Songfen (c/o Stella Li Guo, Songfen/ Balcom Guo, Guo Songfen
• Assisted by: John Balcom (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2008
• EAN: 9780231147347
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14734-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan; Modern Chinese Literature from; Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies