Memory Reconfiguration in Post-War Taiwanese Literature [electronic resource] / by Chung-Yen Yu.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783031908316
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/6335
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2025.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 128 p. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
Chapter One: Introduction: The Texts & Literature Review -- Chapter Two: History & Method: A Sketch of History: Memory:Trauma & Representation -- Chapter Three: Nostalgia: Nostalgia: Habitus & Taboo: WWII & 228: Symbolic Capital in Reverse: Mothers: Shades of Silence -- Chapter Four: Polyglots: The Knowledgeable Past: Mother Tongues & First Languages: Language Adaptation & Identity: Linguistic Migration & Selfhood: English: From Tool to Identity.-Conclusion. .
Özet, vb.
This book examines the impact of martial law on transgenerational memory in post-World War II Taiwan. Through an intense focus on the symptoms of memories, Yu argues that collective remembrances in post-war Taiwan must be studied alongside the islanders' collective amnesia, as the post-war regime coerced its citizens into forgetting. To do so, the book examines the core issue through the lens of two fictional works: Green Island (2016) by Shawna Yang Ryan and The Stolen Bicycle (originally published in 2015, translated in 2017) by Ming-yi Wu, whose narrators belong to the post-war generation and find themselves unable to understand their parents' traumas. It also observes how the war generation memorize consecutive and entangled colonial experiences, experiencing linguistic and social diaspora without the act of migration. Ultimately, Yu argues that post-memory in these circumstances not only refers to secondary memory but bears an anti-memory characteristic as Taiwanese society under martial law shunned the traumas of WWII and the March Massacre in 1947. Chung-Yen Yu received his PhD from Australian National University. .
Konu
Oriental literature.
Collective memory.
Asia __ History.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
Asian Literature.
Memory Studies.
Asian History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Collective memory.
Asia __ History.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
Asian Literature.
Memory Studies.
Asian History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
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