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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823619203321

Autore

Yip June Chun <1962->

Titolo

Envisioning Taiwan : fiction, cinema, and the nation in the cultural imaginary / / June Yip

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

Disciplina

306/.095124/9

Soggetti

Popular culture - Taiwan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Confronting the other, defining a self : Hsiang-t'u literature and the emergence of a Taiwanese nationalism -- Toward the postmodern : Taiwanese new cinema and alternative visions of nation -- Remembering and forgetting, part I: history, memory, and the autobiographical impulse -- Remembering and forgetting, part II : Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwan trilogy -- Language and nationhood : culture as social contestation -- The country and the city : modernization and changing apprehensions of space and time -- Exile, displacement, and shifting identities : globalization and the frontiers of cultural hybridity -- Conclusion : from nation to dissemi-nation : postmodern hybridization and changing conditions for the representation of identity.

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.