ISBN:
9781621965442
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 223 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Cambria Sinophone world series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wu, Chia-rong Remapping the contested sinosphere
DDC:
895.109/951249
Keywords:
Chinese literature History and criticism
;
Space in literature
;
Cultural pluralism
;
National characteristics, Taiwan
;
Taiwan In literature
;
Taiwan
;
Kultur
Abstract:
"As Taiwan's community grows more diverse, Taiwan literature is enriched by a series of locally based writings that draw attention to a specific space and/or to the division between places. In the twentieth century, more and more Taiwanese writers are no longer content with a singular place or dual comparison in their literary creations. Rather, they have started to recognize the plurality of Taiwaneseness and thus re-create an ambiguous form of the Taiwanese subjectivity in response to the conflict and compromise between political beliefs and ethnic groups in a cross-cultural light. To further engage with the multifaceted cultural expressions of Taiwan, this book speaks to the current framework of Sinophone studies by focusing on modern Taiwan and its entanglement with cultural China, Chinese diasporas, nativist trend, and Aboriginal consciousness. Recognizing the unresolved ethnic issues of Taiwan, this study explores different dimensions of ethnoscape in response to the cross-cultural landscape of Taiwan and beyond, while at the same time taking into account the intertwining of the official history and the individual, or ethnic, memory of Taiwan"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
