June Yip

Envisioning Taiwan

Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

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Produktbeschreibung

Traces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333579
• ISBN-10: 0822333570
• Artikelnr.: 13936205

Autorenporträt

June Yip

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Envisioning Taiwan in a Changing World 1
1. Confronting the Other, Defining a Self: Hsiang-t’u Literature and the
Emergence of a Taiwanese Nationalism 12
2. Toward the Postmodern: Taiwanese New Cinema and Alternative Visions of
Nation 49
3. Remembering and Forgetting, Part I: History, Memory, and the
Autobiographical Impulse 69
4. Remembering and Forgetting, Part II: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Taiwan Trilogy 85
5. Language and Nationhood: Culture as Social Contestation 131
6. The Country and the City: Modernization and Changing Apprehensions of
Space and Time 181
7. Exile, Displacement, and Shifting Identities: Globalization and the
Frontiers of Cultural Hybridity 211
Conclusion: From Nation to Dissemi-Nation: Postmodern Hybridization and
Changing Conditions for the Representation of Identity 230
Notes 249
Bibliography 325
Index 345