Literary Culture in Taiwan Martial Law to Market Law

Name: Literary Culture in Taiwan Martial Law to Market Law
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ISBN: 9780231132343

ISBN-10: 0231132344

ISBN-13: 9780231132343

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang

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With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent political past, but also its literary past. Taiwanese literature is now compelled to negotiate a path between residual high culture aspirations and the emergent reality of market domination in a relatively autonomous, increasingly professionalized field. This book argues that the concept of a field of cultural production is essential to accounting for the ways in which writers and editors respond to political and economic forces. It traces the formation of dominant concepts of literature, competing literary trends, and how these ideas have met political…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/6/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.93" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.254




Academic Contexts and Conceptual Frameworks



Political and Market Factors in the Literary Field



Soft-Authoritarian Rule and the Mainstream Position



The Modernist Trend and Aestheticization of the "China Trope" in Mainstream Literature



Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition



Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Fiction



High Culture Aspirations and Transformations of Mainstream Fiction



New Developments in the Post--Martial Law Period