Introduction: From loyalism to postloyalism -- Qiu Fengjia and lyric poetry after trauma -- Lian Heng and the poetics of history -- Writing sounds and reading voices -- Zhong Lihe, Hakka, and hospitality -- Wu Zhuoliu and orphan as metaphor -- Conclusion: Toward a postloyal criticism
Summary
"Considers the ways in which Taiwan's cession to Japan forever changed Taiwanese writers' and intellectuals' perception of and loyalty to China. Examines the reformulation of traditional Chinese loyalism in colonial Taiwan and the creative ways that select writers employed different genres, mother and foreign tongues, and the notion of ethnicity to accomplish their goals"-- Provided by publisher