Yip / Chow / Harootunian Envisioning Taiwan

Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8639-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Traces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yip, June

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Envisioning Taiwan in a Changing World 1

1. Confronting the Other, Defining a Self: Hsiang-t’u Literature and the Emergence of a Taiwanese Nationalism 12

2. Toward the Postmodern: Taiwanese New Cinema and Alternative Visions of Nation 49

3. Remembering and Forgetting, Part I: History, Memory, and the Autobiographical Impulse 69

4. Remembering and Forgetting, Part II: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Taiwan Trilogy 85

5. Language and Nationhood: Culture as Social Contestation 131

6. The Country and the City: Modernization and Changing Apprehensions of Space and Time 181

7. Exile, Displacement, and Shifting Identities: Globalization and the Frontiers of Cultural Hybridity 211

Conclusion: From Nation to Dissemi-Nation: Postmodern Hybridization and Changing Conditions for the Representation of Identity 230

Notes 249

Bibliography 325

Index 345

Über Autor(innen)

June Yip is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she has taught Chinese film.