Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire
span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the
twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading
literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider
prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry,
travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The
diversity of Taiwan literature is signaled by the range of authors
treated, including Yang Chichang, who studied Japanese literature
in Tokyo in the early 1930s and wrote all of his own poetry and
fiction in Japanese; Li Yongping, an ethnic Chinese born in
Malaysia and educated in Taiwan and the United States; and Liu
Daren, who was born in mainland China and effectively exiled from
Taiwan in the 1970s on account of his political activism.Because
the island of Taiwan spent the first half of the century as a
colony of Japan and the second half in an umbilical relationship to
China, its literature challenges basic assumptions about what
constitutes a "national literature." Several contributors directly
address the methodological and epistemological issues involved in
writing about "Taiwan literature." Other contributors investigate
the cultural and political grounds from which specific genres and
literary movements emerged. Still others explore themes of history
and memory in Taiwan literature and tropes of space and geography,
looking at representations of boundaries as well as the
boundary-crossing global flows of commodities and capital. Like
Taiwan's history, modern Taiwan literature is rife with conflicting
legacies and impulses. Writing Taiwan reveals a sense of its
richness and diversity to English-language readers. Contributors.
Yomi Braester, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Fangming Chen, Lingchei
Letty Chen, Chaoyang Liao, Ping-hui Liao, Joyce C. H. Liu, Kim-chu
Ng, Carlos Rojas, Xiaobing Tang, Ban Wang, David Der-wei Wang, Gang
Gary Xu, Michelle Yeh, Fenghuang Ying
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