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Title Angelwings : contemporary queer fiction from Taiwan / translated by Fran Martin
Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Bodhisattva incarnate / Chu T'ien-wen -- Platonic hair / Qiu Miaojin -- A story of spring butterflies / Chu T'ien-hsin -- Stones on the shore / Hsu Yoshen -- The boy in the pink orchid tree / Lin Yuyi -- Who is singing? / Lin Chun Ying -- Searching for the lost wings of the angel / Chen Xue -- Poem from the glass womb / Hong Ling -- A stranger's ID / Chi Tawei -- Rose is the past tense of rise / Wu Jiwen
Summary Lesbian and gay--or queer--fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories presented here. Indeed, the meteoric rise of this new genre was a defining feature of Taiwan's literary scene in the 1990s. Queer fiction was also instrumental in forming self-identifying subcultural gay readerships, thus serving a significant political function. But most strikingly, this fiction has been immensely popular with general readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, as well as in diasporic Chinese communities worldwide. The startlingly fresh, brave voices that speak through these stories attest to the powerful social ferment of the past ten years in Taiwan, which have witnessed a revolution in discourses on sex and sexuality in the public sphere. Contributors: Chu T'ien-Wen, Qiu Miaojin, Chu T'ien-Hsin, Hsu Yoshen, Lin Yuyi, Lin Chun Ying, Chen Xue, Hong Ling, Chi Tawei, Wu Jiwen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Chinese fiction -- Taiwan
Chinese fiction -- 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Asian -- General.
Chinese fiction
Literatur
18.86 Chinese language and literature.
Chinese fiction -- Taiwan.
Short stories, Chinese -- 20th century.
Gays -- Fiction.
Lesbians -- Fiction.
Taiwan
Taiwan
Chinesisch.
Genre/Form short stories.
Short stories
Gay fiction
Fiction
Anthologies (form)
Translations (form)
Stories (texts)
Short stories.
Gay fiction.
Nouvelles.
Romans homosexuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Martin, Fran, 1971- translator.
LC no. 2002012328
ISBN 9780824861469
0824861469
Other Titles Contemporary queer fiction from Taiwan