Title: Colonial Taiwan : negotiating identities and modernity through literature /
Authors: Lin, Pei-yin
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chinese literature Taiwan History and criticism.; Chinese literature History and criticism.; Chinese literature.; Taiwan
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Introduction: relocating the multilingual new Taiwanese literature -- The nationalist paradigm of Taiwan literature : Lai He -- From nationalism to socialism : Yang Kui -- Popular romances and their alternative modernity : Xu Kunquan and Wu Mansha -- Stylistic reorientation and innovation : Lu Heruo, Long Yingzong and Weng Nao -- How to become "Japanese"? : Chen Huoquan, Wang Changxiong and Zhou Jinbo -- The lure of China : Wu Zhuoliu and Zhong Lihe -- Epilogue: toward a multifaceted literary commonwealth.