Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History

Published by Duke University Press 2007

Writing Taiwan

A New Literary History

Edited by: David Der-wei Wang , Carlos Rojas , Rey Chow , Harry Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi

In the series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388579

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“This is an original project, difficult to achieve, that updates scholarship on the literature of Taiwan. Its originality is strong and welcome.”—Edward Gunn, author of Rewriting Chinese: Style and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Chinese Prose

“[An] excellent book. . . . this is a conference volume, but either because conference planners were careful in extending invitations and assigning topics or because editors Wang and Rojas did masterful work in sorting and sifting submissions, Writing Taiwan succeeds in mustering disparate voices to address the central topic of the way in which Taiwan has been narrated into existence.”

-- Thomas Morgan Chinese Literature

“The volume, in fact, works wonderfully as a useful guide for literary scholars, pointing to accessible pathways to a very rich field for research and provocatively reconfiguring the current shape of Chinese literary studies. Anyone who is interested in transnational literary studies, particularly in relation to Asian literature and literatures in Chinese, will find something in this volume to help construct new theoretical and referential frameworks for his or her research.”

-- Kuei-Fen Chiu Journal of Asian Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface David Der-wei Wang Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Carlos Rojas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: The Limits of Taiwan Literature
1. Representing Taiwan: Shifting Geopolitical Frameworks Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Postmodern or Postcolonial? An Inquiry into Postwar Taiwanese Literary History Fangming Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
3. On the Concept of Taiwan Literature Xiaobing Tang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Part Two: Cultural Politics
4. The Importance of Being Perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931–1937 Joyce C. H. Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5. “ On Our Destitute Dinner Table”: Modern Poetry Quarterly in the 1950s Michelle Yeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
6 The Literary Development of Zhong Lihe and Postcolonial Discourse in Taiwan Fenghuang Ying Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9. Taiwanese Identity and the Crisis of Memory: Post-Chiang Mystery Yomi Braester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
10. Doubled Configuration: Reading Su Weizhen’s Theatricality Gang Gary Xu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
11. Techniques behind Lies and the Artistry of Truth: Writing about the Writings of Zhang Dachun Kim-chu Ng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Part Four: Spectral Topograp hies 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
13. Mapping Identity in a Postcolonial City: Intertextuality and Cultural Hybridity in Zhu Tianxin’s Ancient Capital Lingchei Letty Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
14. Li Yongping and Spectral Cartography Carlos Rojas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
16. Reenchanting the Image in Global Culture: Reification and Nostalgia in Zhu Tianwen’s Fiction Ban Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
Appendix: Chinese Characters for Authors’ Names and Titles of Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 424

eBook

Published: January 24, 2007
ISBN: 9780822388579