The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature Moving Borders

Introduction: On the Sinophone South

Chia-rong Wu, Min-xu Zhan, Alison Groppe, and Yenna Wu

Part One: Hybrid Identities and Transnational Exchanges in the South

1.     Taiwan in Relations: Reclaiming Austronesian Commons

Hsinya Huang

2.     Toward a Practice of Minority Discourse: The Global South in the Literary Works of Lan Xiaolu and Lian Mingwei

Pei-yin Lin

3.     Progress and Regress: Sinophone Women Writers of Singapore

Ming-ju Fan

4.     Living Between “Imagined Communities”: Identity Construction in Sinophone Literature in Thailand

Rebecca Ehrenwirth

5.     Sinophone Southern Cross: Australian Eros at the Turn of the Millennium

Josh Stenberg

Part Two: Southern Marginality, Migration, and Translation

6.     Marginality, Precarity, and Resilience in Li Zishu’s Sinophone South

Alison Groppe

7.     Curry Rice and Li Ang’s Crafting of Transcultural Hybridity

Yenna Wu

8.     Cultural Orphans in the Sinophone South: The Discursive Resonance Between Kuo Pao Kun and Wang Anyi in the 1990s

Cheow Thia Chan

9.     A Good Life in the Southern World: Lung Ying-tai’s At the Foot of Mount Kavulungan and Walking: A Practice of Solitude

Irmy Schweiger

10.  The Other Migrant in Mahua Literature: Indians in Shang Wanyun’s “Mubanwu de Yinduren” as a Case Study

Antonio Paoliello

Part Three: Comparative Poetics in the Southern World

11.  Southern Sentiments, Northern Gaze: Yang Mu and the Question of Southern Discourse

Min-xu Zhan

12.  The Northern Island Center, West, and South: The Question of Context and Bei Dao’s Sidetracks as Chinese, Asian American, and Hong Kong Sinophone Poetry

Lucas Klein

13.  The Migration of Cantophone Writers: Deviating from the Southbound Route of the Wang Tao Mode

Chris Song

14.  A “Compass” for Sinophone Poetry: Hong Kong Literary Journals and Community Across Translingualism

Simona Gallo

15.  Macau: Where North Meets South

Brian Skerratt

Biography

Chia-rong Wu is an Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of Global, Cultural, and Language Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Min-xu Zhan is an Associate Professor and Chair of Taiwan Literature at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.

Alison Groppe is an Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon, USA.

Yenna Wu is a Professor of Chinese, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Chinese Program Director at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

Praise for The Southern Discourse in Sinophone Literature: Moving Borders

"Cogently argued and theoretically textured, this path-breaking collection advances an incisive framework that pushes against the limits of Western-centric and China-centric conceptions of identity, marginality, hybridity, and global belonging. 'The Sinophone South' coheres around a neglected terrain of geopolitical exclusion, upends dominant notions of cultural demarcation, and will forever redefine the literary gravitation of texts hailing from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, the Austronesian Pacific, Asian America, and beyond."

Howard Chiang, author of Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific