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Intro
Acknowledgements
A Note on Chinese Romanization
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Introduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century
1 The Historical and Theoretical Framework
2 An Overview of Chapters
References
The Reconstruction of History and Politics
Democracy Detoured and a Narrator Detached in the Political Fiction of Lai Xiangyin
1 Progression and Regression
2 Historiography and Metanarrative
3 Conclusion
References
A Venture into Taiwan's Political Changes and Historical Memories Through Li Ang's "Beef Noodle Soup"
1 Exploring the Historical Memories of the Homeland
2 "Beef Noodle Soup" in An Erotic Feast for Lovebirds
3 Between Fact and Fiction
4 Visceral, Gustatory, and Psychological Trauma
5 Recognition, Reflections, and Ironies
6 Some Concluding Remarks
References
Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-Ming's Fiction
1 Gan Yao-Ming
2 Contemporary Voices and the Magic of Realism
3 Maximalist and Homegrown Narratives
References
Genres, Forms, and Ideas
Clipping Wings: A Chronicle and Wang Wen-Hsing's Art
1 Foreword
2 A Mid-20th-Century Pilgrimage: The Iowa Legacy
2.1 Flaubert's Disciple: Literature as Substitute Religion
3 Narrative Device as Marker of Cognitive Capacity
3.1 "Shame": The Affect that Defines the Sense of Self
3.2 A Transactional Approach to Religious Faith
3.3 Innocent Suffering, Vacuous Compassion, and the Instinctive Evil
3.4 Trauma and the Possibility of Redemption
4 Existential Despair Reimagined
4.1 The Ethical Implications of "Taste"
4.2 Bureaucratic Conspiracy, Kafka-style
5 Cultural Elitism and the Aesthetically Neutralized Sociocultural Critique
5.1 Depravity as Source of Mimetic Pleasure
6 "Greater Freedom" in Tactics to Maximize Affect
6.1 Affect Theory and the Tapping of the Bodily Realm for Aesthetic Resource
7 Contemporary Reception and Literary History
References
Xia Yu, the Supreme Stylist
References
Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zheng's Science Fiction
1 Ground Zero and Schrödinger's Cat
2 Dream Devourer and Laplace's Demon
3 Conclusion
References
Reflections Upon Gender and Sexuality
Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer Alternatives
1 "Lost Wings"
2 Becoming We
3 The Name of the Father
4 Coda
Acknowledgements
A Note on Chinese Romanization
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Introduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century
1 The Historical and Theoretical Framework
2 An Overview of Chapters
References
The Reconstruction of History and Politics
Democracy Detoured and a Narrator Detached in the Political Fiction of Lai Xiangyin
1 Progression and Regression
2 Historiography and Metanarrative
3 Conclusion
References
A Venture into Taiwan's Political Changes and Historical Memories Through Li Ang's "Beef Noodle Soup"
1 Exploring the Historical Memories of the Homeland
2 "Beef Noodle Soup" in An Erotic Feast for Lovebirds
3 Between Fact and Fiction
4 Visceral, Gustatory, and Psychological Trauma
5 Recognition, Reflections, and Ironies
6 Some Concluding Remarks
References
Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-Ming's Fiction
1 Gan Yao-Ming
2 Contemporary Voices and the Magic of Realism
3 Maximalist and Homegrown Narratives
References
Genres, Forms, and Ideas
Clipping Wings: A Chronicle and Wang Wen-Hsing's Art
1 Foreword
2 A Mid-20th-Century Pilgrimage: The Iowa Legacy
2.1 Flaubert's Disciple: Literature as Substitute Religion
3 Narrative Device as Marker of Cognitive Capacity
3.1 "Shame": The Affect that Defines the Sense of Self
3.2 A Transactional Approach to Religious Faith
3.3 Innocent Suffering, Vacuous Compassion, and the Instinctive Evil
3.4 Trauma and the Possibility of Redemption
4 Existential Despair Reimagined
4.1 The Ethical Implications of "Taste"
4.2 Bureaucratic Conspiracy, Kafka-style
5 Cultural Elitism and the Aesthetically Neutralized Sociocultural Critique
5.1 Depravity as Source of Mimetic Pleasure
6 "Greater Freedom" in Tactics to Maximize Affect
6.1 Affect Theory and the Tapping of the Bodily Realm for Aesthetic Resource
7 Contemporary Reception and Literary History
References
Xia Yu, the Supreme Stylist
References
Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zheng's Science Fiction
1 Ground Zero and Schrödinger's Cat
2 Dream Devourer and Laplace's Demon
3 Conclusion
References
Reflections Upon Gender and Sexuality
Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer Alternatives
1 "Lost Wings"
2 Becoming We
3 The Name of the Father
4 Coda