Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century

<p>Introduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century</p><p>Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan</p><p>Part One: The Reconstruction of History and Politics</p><p>1. Democracy Detoured and a Narrator Detached in the Political Fiction of Lai Xiangyin</p><p>Ming-ju Fan</p>2. A Venture into Taiwan’s Political Changes and Historical Memories</p><p>Through Li Ang’s “Beef Noodle Soup”</p><p>Yenna Wu</p><p>3. Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-ming’s Fiction</p><p>Bert Scruggs</p><p>Part Two: Genres, Forms, and Ideas</p><p>4. Clipping Wings: A Chronicle and Wang Wen-hsing’s Art</p><p>Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang</p><p>5. Xia Yu, the Supreme Stylist</p><p>Michelle Yeh</p><p>6. Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zheng’s Science Fiction</p><p>Wen-chi Li</p><p>Part Three: Reflections upon Gender and Sexuality</p><p>7. Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer Alternatives</p><p>Carlos Rojas</p><p>8. Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuan’s The Love that is Temporary and A Farewell Letter</p><p>LinshanJiang</p><p>9. Liglav Awu, Child of the “Double Country”: the Clarion Voice of Indigenous Women in Taiwan</p><p>Fanny Caron</p><p>Part Four: On Ethnicities and Races</p><p>10. Through an Indigenous Lens: Syaman Rapongan’s Rewriting of Oceanic Taiwan</p><p>Chia-rong Wu</p>11. Migrants of Today, Migrants of Tomorrow in Wu Ming-yi’s Literary Works</p><p>Gwennaël Gaffric</p><p>12. Anti-Japan or Becoming-Japanese: Li Yongping’s Writing on Japan in Postcolonial Taiwan</p><p>Min-xu Zhan</p><p>13. Huang Chong-kai and the Taiwanese Novel of Ideas</p><p>Nicholas Y. H. Wong</p><p>Part Five: Taiwan Literature in the Age of Globalization</p><p>14. Escape and Return: Ghostly Representations of Home and Abroad in Kevin Chen’s “Summer Trilogy”</p><p>Pei-yin Lin</p><p>15. Sketches on a Blank Slate: Shawna Yang Ryan’s Future-oriented Memories of the Past</p><p>Irmy Schweiger</p><p>16. National Border on the Tip of Tongue: The Limit of Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Li Kotomi’s Count Down to Five Seconds of Crescent Moon</p><p>Sophia Huei-Ling Chen</p>