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Author Yip, June Chun, 1962-

Title Envisioning Taiwan [electronic resource] : fiction, cinema, and the nation in the cultural imaginary / June Yip.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

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Description 356 p. : ill.
Series Asia-Pacific: culture, politics, and society
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Asia-Pacific.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Confronting the other, defining a self : Hsiang-t'u literature and the emergence of a Taiwanese nationalism -- Toward the postmodern : Taiwanese new cinema and alternative visions of nation -- Remembering and forgetting, part I: history, memory, and the autobiographical impulse -- Remembering and forgetting, part II : Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwan trilogy -- Language and nationhood : culture as social contestation -- The country and the city : modernization and changing apprehensions of space and time -- Exile, displacement, and shifting identities : globalization and the frontiers of cultural hybridity -- Conclusion : from nation to dissemi-nation : postmodern hybridization and changing conditions for the representation of identity.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Huang, Chunming, 1935- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Popular culture -- Taiwan.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822386391
0822386399
0822333570 (alk. paper)
9780822333579 (alk. paper)
0822333678 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822333678 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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