Taiwanese literature as world literature. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li.
• Editors: Lin, Pei-yin; (Sinologist), Li, Wen-chi
• Contents: Editorial NotesForewordKaren Thornber (Harvard University, USA)Introduction: Framing Taiwanese Literature as World LiteraturePei-yin Lin (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Wen-chi Li (University of Edinburgh, UK)Part I. Bridging Taiwan and the World: Framework and Tactics1. Taiwanese Literature in Two Transnational Contexts: Sinophone Literature and World LiteratureKuei-fen Chiu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)2. Worlding Taiwan: Taiwanese Literature's Contingent Constructions Carlos Rojas (Duke University, USA)3. Worlding Modalities of Taiwanese Literature: Family Saga, Autobiographical Narrative, and BildungsromanPei-yin Lin (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Part II. Bringing the World Home: Transcultural Practice in Taiwanese Literature4. Reading Taiwan through Japanese and French Literatures: The Surrealism of Le Moulin Poetry Society Yi-chen Liu (Meiji University, Japan) (translated by Blake Brownrigg)5. Responsible Primitivism: Wu Ming-yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes as Indigenous-Themed Environmental World LiteratureDarryl Sterk (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)6. The Foreign at Home: World Literature, Viral Postmodernism, and Notes of a Desolated ManNicholas A. Kaldis (Binghamton University, SUNY, USA)Part III. Bringing Taiwan to the World: Taiwanese Literature in Translation7. Anthologizing Taiwan: Taiwanese Literature toward the Anglophone WorldJohn Balcom (Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA)8. Settling in the World Republic of Letters: Taiwanese Literature in French Gwennaël Gaffric (Jean Moulin University-Lyon 3, France)9. Voices from Alternative Literary Fields: Translating Taiwanese Literature into ItalianFederica Passi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)10. From Taiwan's Literature to Taiwanese Literature: A Paradigm Shift in Japanese TranslationYing-che Huang (Aichi University, Japan) (translated by Sherlon Chi-yin Ip)11. Made in Taiwan: Reading Chiu Miao-chin's Lesbian Tales as World LiteratureWen-chi Li (University of Edinburgh, UK)12. Translation Matters: The Case of The Butcher's Wife in EnglishSheng-chi Hsu (University of Warwick, UK)Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 895.109951249; Chinese literature -- Taiwan -- History and criticism; Chinese literature -- Appreciation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501381355
• Related ISBNs: 9781501381362
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