Short description:

This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University). This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both established and young writers. It not only engages with the evolving trends of literary Taiwan, but also promotes the translocal consciousness and cultural diversity of the island state and beyond. Focusing on the new directions and trends of Taiwan literature, this edited book fits into Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, and Asian studies. 

Long description:

This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University). This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both established and young writers. It not only engages with the evolving trends of literary Taiwan, but also promotes the translocal consciousness and cultural diversity of the island state and beyond. Focusing on the new directions and trends of Taiwan literature, this edited book fits into Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, and Asian studies. 

?This is a very interesting book ? . Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century hence offers an extremely useful guide to the most important names, together with close analyses of their main works and is consequently highly recommended.? (Bradley Wintertion, taipeitimes.com, June 8, 2023)

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century

Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan

Part One: The Reconstruction of History and Politics

1. Democracy Detoured and a Narrator Detached in the Political Fiction of Lai Xiangyin

Ming-ju Fan

Through Li Ang?s ?Beef Noodle Soup?

Yenna Wu

3. Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-ming?s Fiction

Bert Scruggs

Part Two: Genres, Forms, and Ideas

4. Clipping Wings: A Chronicle and Wang Wen-hsing?s Art

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang

5. Xia Yu, the Supreme Stylist

Michelle Yeh

6. Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zheng?s Science Fiction

Wen-chi Li

Part Three: Reflections upon Gender and Sexuality

7. Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer Alternatives

Carlos Rojas

8. Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuan?s The Love that is Temporary and A Farewell Letter

LinshanJiang

9. Liglav Awu, Child of the ?Double Country?: the Clarion Voice of Indigenous Women in Taiwan

Fanny Caron

Part Four: On Ethnicities and Races

10. Through an Indigenous Lens: Syaman Rapongan?s Rewriting of Oceanic Taiwan

Chia-rong Wu

Gwennaël Gaffric

12. Anti-Japan or Becoming-Japanese: Li Yongping?s Writing on Japan in Postcolonial Taiwan

Min-xu Zhan

13. Huang Chong-kai and the Taiwanese Novel of Ideas

Nicholas Y. H. Wong

Part Five: Taiwan Literature in the Age of Globalization

14. Escape and Return: Ghostly Representations of Home and Abroad in Kevin Chen?s ?Summer Trilogy?

Pei-yin Lin

15. Sketches on a Blank Slate: Shawna Yang Ryan?s Future-oriented Memories of the Past

Irmy Schweiger

16. National Border on the Tip of Tongue: The Limit of Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Li Kotomi?s Count Down to Five Seconds of Crescent Moon

Sophia Huei-Ling Chen