Literary Representations of Mainlanders in Taiwan

Autor*innen

• Phyllis Yu-ting Huang

Parameter

• Kultur und Gesellschaft

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Introduction: What's in a name? : second-generation mainlander writing as a genre -- Constructing the mainlander : self, other, and homeland in Chu Tien-hsin's Everlasting and Yuan Chiung-chiung's This love, this life -- Seeking a new identity : Su Wei-chen's Leaving Tongfang and Chu Tien-hsin's "In remembrance of my buddies from the military compound" -- In quest of the absent mainlander father : family, history, and mainlander identity in Hao Yu-hsiang's The inn and Lo Yi-chin's The moon clan -- Inventing a Taiwanized Juancun : Lai Sheng-chuan and Wang Wei-chung's The village -- Happily ever after? : homecoming and mainlander identity in Chiang Hsiao-yun's Peach blossom well -- Conclusion and epilogue: "Mainlander" as an identity of in-betweenness.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Einband: Hardcover