Contemporary Taiwanese Women Writers (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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A Pacific island of roughly 14,400 square miles, Taiwan lies just over a hundred miles off the China’s southeast shoreline and seven hundred miles south of Japan. It has been a contested cultural space between its original aboriginal inhabitants (Taiyals and Vonums) and many generations of Chinese immigrants as well as waves of Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese colonial inhabitants. All of this provides the backdrop for some of the richest Sinophone literature in the world. Unfixed, vibrant, and deeply engaged with a sense of place, Taiwanese women writers—from the experimental poetry pioneer Hsia Yu to younger multimedia poets like Ye Mimi to powerhouse authors like Li Ang and Chu T’ien-wen—are continually pushing the boundaries of the possible and unlocking new directions for Sinophone literature in the twenty-first century.

With this first English-language anthology of contemporary Taiwanese women writers in decades, readers are finally provided with a window to the widest possible range of voices, styles, and textures of contemporary Taiwanese women writers. Each story unfolds and takes readers through fascinating narratives spanning adolescence, marriage, and motherhood as well as sex, politics and economics on many different scales—some appear as snapshots of lives in transition, others reveal whole lives as time-lapse images across decades, while a few implode into the stillness of a single bottomless moment. Individually each story expresses its own varied, expansively heterogeneous narrative; when read as a whole collection, readers will discover a pointedly gendered exploration of modern Taiwan.

- Foreword by Pi-twan Huang
- From Taiwan: Some of the Richest Sinophone Literature by Jonathan Stalling
- Wedding Date by Ping Lu
- The Story of Hsiao-Pi by Chu T’ien-wen
- The Party Girl by Lin Tai-man
- Taipei Train Station by Tsai Su-fen
- The Travels and Lover of a Junior High Girl by Chung Wenyin
- Baby, My Dear by Marula Liu
- No Time to Grow Up by Su Wei-chen
- A Place of One’s Own Yuan by Chiung-chiung
- Seed of the Rape Plant by Liao Hui-ying
- The Devil in a Chastity Belt by Li Ang
- The Fish Chen by Jo-hsi