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WRITING TAIWAN. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 240
Taiwan’s nativist literature, known as Taiwan
hsiang-t’u literature, originated in the Japanese
occupation when Taiwanese native authors strived to
establish a “national” literature distinct from
Japanese and Chinese literatures. Drawing on recent
colonial/postcolonial theory, this project aims to
investigate the process of writing in which the
native tongue profoundly undermined the privileged
status of the colonizer’s language and through
which natives could articulate their colonial
existence. It argues that the new conception of
Taiwanese writing produced a new literature where
the cultural “otherness” was traversed by the
language and literature of the colonized.
Concurrently, the practice of Taiwanese writing as a
means of resistance to the writing of the colonizer
constructed a new paradigm for
Taiwanese “national” identity.
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