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Asian American Poetry: THE NEXT GENERATION

Editat de Victoria Chang Cuvânt înainte de Marilyn Chin Contribuţii de Timothy Liu, Adrienne Su, Sue Kwock Kim, Rick Barot, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mong-Lan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mai 2004
This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of the island's contested national identities, first vis-à-vis imperial Japan (1895-1945) and later with postwar China (1945-2000).
 
In particular, during periods of soft authoritarianism in the Japanese colonial era and late twentieth century, autonomous women's movements emerged and operated within the political perimeters set by the authoritarian regimes. Women strove to replace the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" ideal with an individualist feminism that meshed social, political, and economic gender equity with the prevailing Confucian family ideology. However, during periods of hard authoritarianism from the 1930s to the 1960s, the autonomous movements collapsed.
 
The particular brand of Taiwanese feminism developed from numerous outside influences, including interactions among an East Asian sociopolitical milieu, various strands of Western feminism, and Marxist-Leninist women's liberation programs in Soviet Russia. Chinese communism appears not to have played a significant role, due to the Chinese Nationalists' restriction of communication with the mainland during their rule on post-World War II Taiwan.
 
Notably, this study compares the perspectives of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband led as the president of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1949 to 1975, and Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president from 2000 to 2008. Delving into period sources such as the highly influential feminist monthly magazine Awakening as well as interviews with feminist leaders, Chang provides a comprehensive historical and cross-cultural analysis of the struggle for gender equality in Taiwan.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780252071744
ISBN-10: 0252071743
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press

Recenzii

"Some of the freshest, most engaging work being written in the United States."--Pleiades
"The poems in this vibrant, varied collection address so many subjects in such a range of voices that it all but destroys monolithic notions of Asian American identity, culture, and issues."--Guiyou Huang, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature
"This is a fine selection that portends long literary life and prosperity."--Multicultural Review

Notă biografică

Victoria M. Chang is a published poet (Cream City Review, Crab Orchard Review, Florida Review, MacGuffin, Lullwater Review, Hawaitt Review) and the founder and editor of the Asian/Pacific American Women's Journal at the University of Michigan. Marilyn Chin is the author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, and Dwarf Bamboo.