Comparatizing Taiwan. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Shu-mei Shih, Ping-hui Liao.
• Editors: Shi, Shumei, 1961-; Liao, Binghui
• Contents: Introduction: Why Taiwan? Why Comparatize?, Shu-mei Shih and Ping-hui Liao Part I: Taiwan in Comparison 1. Comparativism and Taiwan Studies: Analyzing Taiwan in/out of Context, or Taiwan as an East Asian New World Society, Frank Muyard 2. Tiger’s Leap into the Past: Comparative Temporalities and the Politics of Redemption, Chien-heng Wu 3. Comparison for Com-passion : Exploring the Structures of Feeling in East Asia, Hong-luen Wang 4. Archipelagoes of Taiwan Literature: Comparative Methods and Island Writings in Taiwan, Yuting Huang 5. Paradoxes of Conservation and Comparison: Taiwan, Environmental Crises, and World Literatures, Karen Thornber 6. Weak Links, Literary Spaces, and Comparative Taiwan, Jing Tsu 7. Far-fetched Lands: The Caribbean, Taiwan, and Submarine Relations, Li-chun Hsiao Part II: Imperial Conjunctures and Contingencies 8. Is Feminism Translatable? Spivak, Taiwan, A-Wu, Shu-mei Shih 9. Voices of Empire in Dubliners and Taibenren, Margaret Hillenbrand 10. Body (Language) across the Sea: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Embodiment of Post/colonial Modernity, Faye Yuan Kleeman 11. Interlingual Discovery: Sato Haruo’s Travels in the Colony, Ping-hui Liao 12. Taiwan’s Postcolonial and Queer Discourse in the 1990s, Liang-ya Liou 13. Taiwan after the Colonial Century: Bringing China into the Foreground, Jieh-min Wu
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 951.249; Cross-cultural studies; Chinese literature -- Taiwan -- History and criticism; Taiwan -- Civilization; National characteristics, Taiwan; Taiwan -- Relations; Taiwan -- Intellectual life; Taiwan -- Study and teaching
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317677833; 9781317677840; 9781317677826
• Related ISBNs: 9781138778092
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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