Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary. By June Yip. [Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 356 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-8223-33367-8.]
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Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary. By June Yip. [Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 356 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-8223-33367-8.]
Beteiligte:
Liao, Ping-Hui
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2005
Beschreibung:
<jats:p>June Yip's <jats:italic>Envisioning Taiwan</jats:italic> considers Taiwan's emergent discourse on a national identity in light of its regionalist or nativist (<jats:italic>hsiang-t'u</jats:italic>) literary movement and the New Cinema which flourished in the 1970s and 1980s. The book has seven chapters, largely devoted to the work of artists such as Hwang Chun-ming and Hou Hsiao-hsien. It gives a most sensible and nuanced account of the development of post-colonial global consciousness and of the indigenization processes in post-1987, Taiwan when martial law was lifted. It argues that language, literature and cinema have played a vital part in constructing cultural nationalism. To map the critical paths in which the Taiwanese have struggled to fashion a unique cultural identity, Yip reveals how “the complexities of Taiwanese literature and film have themselves necessitated a reassessment of conventional assumptions about the local, the national, and the global” (p. 11).</jats:p><jats:p>Democratization, indigenization and the emergence of a vigorous native consciousness provided parameters that pushed forward local demands for “creative ways to assert the island's undeniable existence as an independent entity without actually declaring itself a nation” (p. 246). According to Yip, the ascendancy of Taiwanese national consciousness was indebted to the political liberation of the 1980s, but was in fact inspired by the <jats:italic>hsiang-t'u</jats:italic> literature of the 1960s and 1970s. She begins with the literary debates of 1977–78 and uses Hwang Chun-ming as a prime – albeit “curious” – example of someone who provided a voice of local colour in response to capitalist lifestyles, trendy Western ideas and American cultural goods.</jats:p>