Colonial Taiwan

Negotiating Identities and Modernity Through Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34449-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 643 g

Reihe: East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture

This book offers a thorough and thought-provoking study on the impact of Japanese colonialism on Taiwan’s literary production from the 1920s to 1945. It redresses the previous nationalist and Japan-centric interpretations of works from Taiwan’s Japanese period, and eschews a colonizer/colonized dichotomy. Through a highly sensitive textual analysis and contextual reading, this chronologically structured book paints a multi-layered picture of colonial Taiwan’s literature, particularly its multi-styled articulations of identities and diverse visions of modernity. By engaging critically with current scholarship, Lin has written with great sentiment the most complete history of the colonial Taiwanese literary development in English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Pei-Yin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Romanization and Translation

Introduction: Relocating the Multilingual New Taiwanese Literature
Chapter 1 The Nationalist Paradigm of Taiwan Literature: Lai He
Chapter 2 From Nationalism to Socialism: Yang Kui
Chapter 3 Popular Romances and their Alternative Modernity: Xu Kunquan and Wu Mansha
Chapter 4 Stylistic Reorientation and Innovation: Lü Heruo, Long Yingzong, and Weng Nao
Chapter 5 How to Become “Japanese”?: Chen Huoquan, Wang Changxiong, and Zhou Jinbo
Chapter 6 The Lure of China: Wu Zhuoliu and Zhong Lihe
Epilogue: Toward a Multifaceted Literary Commonwealth

Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pei-yin Lin, Ph.D. (2001), University of London, is Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese, HKU. She has published on modern Chinese/Taiwanese literature, including Print, Profit, and Perception: Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895-1949 (co-edited, Brill, 2014).