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

• Autore: Yip June
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.095124/9
• Soggetto topico: Sociology & Social History; Social Change; Social Sciences
• Altri autori: ChowRey HarootunianHarry MiyoshiMasao
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Envisioning Taiwan
• ISBN: 0-8223-8639-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777992603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society