Remapping the contested Sinosphere
Subtitle: the cross-cultural landscape and ethnoscape of Taiwan
By: Chia-rong Wu
Series: Cambria Sinophone world series; Cambria sinophone world series
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781621965442; 9781621965596; 9781621965602
Subjects: Chinese literature; History and criticism; In literature; Space in literature; Cultural pluralism; Taiwan National characteristics; Literature
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.