1st Edition

Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan Becoming Sinophone

172 Pages

by Routledge

172 Pages

by Routledge

172 Pages

by Routledge

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This book examines literary representations of mainlander identity articulated by Taiwan’s second-generation mainlander writers, who share the common feature of emotional ambivalence between Taiwan and China. Closely analyzing literary narratives of Chinese civil war migrants and their descendants in Taiwan, a group referred to as "mainlanders" ( waishengren ), this book demonstrates that these... Read more

Introduction: What’s in a Name?: Second-generation Mainlander Writing as a Genre

1. Constructing the Mainlander: Self, Other, and Homeland in Chu Tien-hsin’s Everlasting (未了) and Yuan Chiung-chiung’s This Love, This Life (今生緣)

2. Seeking a New Identity: Su Wei-chen’s Leaving Tongfang (離開同方) and Chu Tien-hsin’s "In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound" (想我眷村的兄弟們)

3. In Quest of the Absent Mainlander Father: Family, History, and Mainlander Identity in Hao Yu-hsiang’s The Inn (逆旅) and Lo Yi-chin’s The Moon Clan (月球姓氏)

4. Inventing a Taiwanized Juancun: Lai Sheng-chuan and Wang Wei-chung’s The Village (寶島一村)

5. Happily Ever After?: Homecoming and Mainlander Identity in Chiang Hsiao-yun’s Peach Blossom Well (桃花井)

Conclusion and Epilogue: "Mainlander" as an Identity of In-betweenness