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Book SynopsisThis book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University). This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both established and young writers. It not only engages with the evolving trends of literary Taiwan, but also promotes the translocal consciousness and cultural diversity of the island state and beyond. Focusing on the new directions and trends of Taiwan literature, this edited book fits into Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, and Asian studies.
Trade Review“This is a very interesting book … . Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century hence offers an extremely useful guide to the most important names, together with close analyses of their main works and is consequently highly recommended.” (Bradley Wintertion, taipeitimes.com, June 8, 2023)
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century
Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan
Part One: The Reconstruction of History and Politics
1. Democracy Detoured and a Narrator Detached in the Political Fiction of Lai Xiangyin
Ming-ju Fan
2. A Venture into Taiwan’s Political Changes and Historical Memories
Through Li Ang’s “Beef Noodle Soup”
Yenna Wu
3. Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-ming’s Fiction
Bert Scruggs
Part Two: Genres, Forms, and Ideas
4. Clipping Wings: A Chronicle and Wang Wen-hsing’s Art
Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
5. Xia Yu, the Supreme Stylist
Michelle Yeh
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zheng’s Science Fiction
Wen-chi Li
Part Three: Reflections upon Gender and Sexuality
7. Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer Alternatives
Carlos Rojas
8. Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuan’s The Love that is Temporary and A Farewell Letter
Linshan Jiang
9. Liglav Awu, Child of the “Double Country”: the Clarion Voice of Indigenous Women in Taiwan
Fanny Caron
Part Four: On Ethnicities and Races
10. Through an Indigenous Lens: Syaman Rapongan’s Rewriting of Oceanic Taiwan
Chia-rong Wu
11. Migrants of Today, Migrants of Tomorrow in Wu Ming-yi’s Literary Works
Gwennaël Gaffric
12. Anti-Japan or Becoming-Japanese: Li Yongping’s Writing on Japan in Postcolonial Taiwan
Min-xu Zhan
13. Huang Chong-kai and the Taiwanese Novel of Ideas
Nicholas Y. H. Wong
Part Five: Taiwan Literature in the Age of Globalization
14. Escape and Return: Ghostly Representations of Home and Abroad in Kevin Chen’s “Summer Trilogy”
Pei-yin Lin
15. Sketches on a Blank Slate: Shawna Yang Ryan’s Future-oriented Memories of the Past
Irmy Schweiger
16. National Border on the Tip of Tongue: The Limit of Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Li Kotomi’s Count Down to Five Seconds of Crescent Moon
Sophia Huei-Ling Chen
