Envisioning Taiwan : Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary /

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June Yip 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yip, June Chun, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hou, Xiaoxian, > 1947- > Critique et interpretation.
Huang, Chunming, > 1939- > Critique et interpretation.
Populaire cultuur.
Massenkultur
Popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Nationalisme dans la culture populaire > Taiwan.
Culture populaire > Taiwan.
Popular culture > Taiwan.
Taiwan
Taiwan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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