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Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond
Dear Colleagues,
Cambria Press is proud to announce the publication of Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (Rhodes College). This first scholarly monograph focusing on the literary and cultural geography of Taiwan through a Sinophone lens explores the works of Zero Chou (Zhou Meiling), Pai Hsien-yung, Chu T’ien-hsin, Li Ang Giddens Ko, Hsu Jung-che, Gan Yao Ming, Chang Kuei-Hsing, Li Yung-p’ing, and Wu He.
This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Dr. Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania).
“This book examines some interesting, significant types and aspects of Sinophone Taiwan fiction, as well as a number of prominent writers and representative works. Focusing on the narratives of the strange, it connects the trope of ghost haunting with Taiwan’s complex ethnoscapes and historical, colonial trauma. In addition to investigating ‘ghost island’ narratives, it explores literary representations of magical nativism--including magical localism and translocalism. It offers an excellent, timely study on the important but understudied Sinophone Taiwan literature.” —Yenna Wu, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, University of California, Riverside
“Writing from and of the margins, Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond examines the trope of Taiwan as a ghost island through the lens of zhiguai, the premodern Chinese concept of the strange or supernatural. The focus on marginal and liminal narratives facilitates a Sinophone reading of Taiwanese literature and culture beyond the dominant literary taxonomy of modern Chinese literature. Despite its specific focus, the book surveys Taiwanese literature with a study of texts by authors such as Pai Hsian-yung, Li Ang, Chu T’ien-hsin, Wu He, and Giddens Ko to propose a genealogy of ghost island literature as an alternative way of understanding Taiwan as a nation. This first single-authored book on Sinophone Taiwan, which intellectually treads on untouched terrains of a unique literary tradition, is a very welcome addition.” —E.K. Tan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University; and author of Rethinking Chineseness
“In Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond, Chia-rong Wu argues convincingly that the modern zhiguai genre offers Taiwan writers a way of engaging internal difference—particularly as it pertains to gendered and ethnic difference, as well as sites of historical trauma—while at the same time imagining modern Taiwan as a site of difference within a broader Chinese, or Sinophone, cultural imaginary” —Carlos Rojas, Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image, Duke University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: A Strange Beginning
Chapter 1: Tales of the Ghost Island
Chapter 2: A Gendered Discourse of Trauma
Chapter 3: Spatial Politics and Cultural Landscapes
Chapter 4: Magical Nativism in Sinophone Taiwan
Chapter 5: Magical Translocalism in Sinophone Malaysian Literature
Postscript: Strangeness in Popular Literature
Bibliography
Index
Read excerpts from the book.
This book will be launched at this week’s AAS conference in Seattle. See the book at the Cambria Press booth (#600) in the book exhibit hall. Dr. Victor Mair will speak about the book on behalf of Dr. Chia-rong Wu at the Cambria Sinophone World Series event on Saturday (April 2) at 7:30 p.m.. Buy the book from Amazon, which is offering free shipping.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on April 1, 2016
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