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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777992603321

Autore

Yip June

Titolo

Envisioning Taiwan [[electronic resource] ] : Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8223-8639-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Altri autori (Persone)

ChowRey

HarootunianHarry

MiyoshiMasao

Disciplina

306/.095124/9

Soggetti

Sociology & Social History

Social Change

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Envisioning Taiwan in a Changing World; 1 Confronting the Other, Defining a Self:Hsiang-t'u Literature and the Emergence of a Taiwanese Nationalism; 2 Toward the Postmodern: Taiwanese New Cinema and Alternative Visions of Nation; 3 Remembering and Forgetting, Part I: History, Memory, and the Autobiographical Impulse; 4 Remembering and Forgetting, Part II: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwan Trilogy; 5 Language and Nationhood: Culture as Social Contestation; 6 The Country and the City: Modernization and Changing Apprehensions of Space and Time

7 Exile, Displacement, and Shifting Identities: Globalization and the Frontiers of Cultural HybridityConclusion: From Nation to Dissemi-Nation: Postmodern Hybridization and Changing Conditions for the Representation of Identity; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Traces the growth and evolution of a Taiwan's sense of itself as a separate and distinct entity by examining the diverse ways a discourse of nation has been produced in the Taiwanese cultural imagination.