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Modernism and the Nativist Resistance – Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan

Autor Sung–sheng Yvon Chang
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 1993
The first comprehensive English-language study of literary trends in the fiction of Taiwan over the last forty years, this pioneering work explores a rich tradition of literary Modernism in its shifting relationship with Chinese politics and culture.
Situating her subject in its historical context, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang traces the connection between Taiwan's Modernists and the liberal scholars of pre-Communist China. She discusses the Modernists' ambivalent relationship with contemporary Taiwan's conservative culture, and provides a detailed critical survey of the strife between the Modernists and the socialistically inclined, anti-Western Nativists. Chang's approach is comprehensive, combining Chinese and comparative perspectives. Employing the critical insights of Raymond Williams, Peter Burger, M. M. Bahktin, and Fredric Jameson, she investigates the complex issues involved in Chinese writers' appropriation of avant-gardism, aestheticism, and various other Western literary concepts and techniques. Within this framework, Chang offers original, challenging interpretations of major works by the best-known Chinese Modernists from Taiwan.
As an intensive introduction to a literature of considerable quality and impact, and as a case study of the global spread of Western literary Modernism, this book will be of great interest to students of Chinese and comparative literature, and to those who wish to understand the broad patterns of twentieth-century literary history.
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ISBN-13: 9780822313489
ISBN-10: 0822313480
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 147 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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ÒAn important contribution to present-day Taiwanese literary studies.Ó --Rosemary Haddon, Modern Chinese LiteratureÒA welcome addition to the short, but, one hopes, growing English-language list of critical studies of literature from Taiwan. . . . Chang had done the field an inestimable favour of recalling to its attention writers and texts that are of great importance to the history of modern Chinese literature, and she has put forth a lucid argument that should invite productive debate.Ó --Thomas Moran, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs

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"This is the first single-author work on Taiwan fiction in English, which is rather remarkable, given the amount of literature produced, the quality and impact of that literature, and the interesting and shifting relationship of that literature with the social, political, and economic life of Taiwan. The scholarship is first-rate--meticulous, reasoned, and comprehensive."--Howard Goldblatt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang