| Description |
1 online resource (x, 412 pages) |
| Series |
Asia-Pacific |
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Asia-Pacific.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Preface / David Der-wei Wang -- Introduction / Carlos Rojas -- pt. 1. The limits of Taiwan literature. Representing Taiwan: shifting geopolitical frameworks / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang ; Postmodern or postcolonial? An inquiry into postwar Taiwanese literary history / Fangming Chen ; On the concept of Taiwan literature / Xiaobing Tang -- pt. 2. Cultural politics. The importance of being perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931-1937 / Joyce C.H. Liu ; "On our destitute dinner table": Modern poetry quarterly in the 1950s / Michelle Yeh ; The literary development of Zhong Lihe and postcolonial discourse in Taiwan / Fenghuang Ying ; Wang Wenxing's Backed against the sea, parts I and II: the meaning of modernism in Taiwan's contemporary literature / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang -- pt. 3. History, truth, and textual artifice. The monster that is history: Jiang Gui's A tale of modern monsters / David Der-wei Wang ; Taiwanese identity and the crisis of memory: post-Chiang mystery / Yomi Braester ; Doubled configuration: reading Su Weizhen's theatricality / Gang Gary Xu ; Techniques behind lies and artistry of truth: writing about the writings of Zhang Dachun / Kim-chu Ng -- pt. 4. Spectral topographies and circuits of desire. Travel in early-twentieth-century Asia: on Wu Zhuoliu's "Nanking journals" and his notion of Taiwan's alternative modernity / Ping-hui Liao ; Mapping identity in postcolonial city: intertextuality and cultural hybridity in Zhu Tianxin's Ancient capital / Lingchei Letty Chen ; Li Yongping and spectral cartography / Carlos Rojas ; 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 ; Reenchanting the image in global culture: reification and nostalgia in Zhu Tianwen's fiction / Ban Wang -- Appendix: Chinese characters for author's names and titles of works |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Writing Taiwan |
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Representation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- Taiwan -- History and criticism
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Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Chinese literature
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Taiwan
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wang, Dewei
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Rojas, Carlos, 1970-
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| ISBN |
9780822388579 |
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082238857X |
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