Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

Pei-yin Lin is Associate Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. She is author or editor of multiple books, most recently Gender and Ethnicity in Taiwanese Literature: Japanese Colonial Era to Present Day (2021) and Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming (2019, co-edited with Bi-yu Chang).Wen-chi Li is Susan Manning Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK. A translator of Taiwanese literature, he won first prize in the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition.

• Editorial NotesForewordKaren Thornber (Harvard University, USA)Introduction: Framing Taiwanese Literature as World LiteraturePei-yin Lin (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Wen-chi Li (University of Edinburgh, UK)Part I. Bridging Taiwan and the World: Framework and Tactics1. Taiwanese Literature in Two Transnational Contexts: Sinophone Literature and World LiteratureKuei-fen Chiu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)2. Worlding Taiwan: Taiwanese Literature’s Contingent Constructions Carlos Rojas (Duke University, USA)3. Worlding Modalities of Taiwanese Literature: Family Saga, Autobiographical Narrative, and BildungsromanPei-yin Lin (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Part II. Bringing the World Home: Transcultural Practice in Taiwanese Literature4. Reading Taiwan through Japanese and French Literatures: The Surrealism of Le Moulin Poetry Society Yi-chen Liu (Meiji University, Japan) (translated by Blake Brownrigg)5. Responsible Primitivism: Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes as Indigenous-Themed Environmental World LiteratureDarryl Sterk (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)6. The Foreign at Home: World Literature, Viral Postmodernism, and Notes of a Desolate ManNicholas A. Kaldis (Binghamton University, SUNY, USA)Part III. Bringing Taiwan to the World: Taiwanese Literature in Translation7. Anthologizing Taiwan: Taiwanese Literature toward the Anglophone WorldJohn Balcom (Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA)8. Settling in the World Republic of Letters: Taiwanese Literature in French Gwennaël Gaffric (Jean Moulin University-Lyon 3, France)9. Voices from Alternative Literary Fields: Translating Taiwanese Literature into ItalianFederica Passi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)10. From Taiwan’s Literature to Taiwanese Literature: A Paradigm Shift in Japanese TranslationYing-che Huang (Aichi University, Japan) (translated by Sherlon Chi-yin Ip)11. Made in Taiwan: Reading Chiu Miao-chin’s Lesbian Tales as World LiteratureWen-chi Li (University of Edinburgh, UK)12. Translation Matters: The Case of The Butcher’s Wife in EnglishSheng-chi Hsu (University of Warwick, UK)Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

Offering a fascinating range of topics and perspectives, this volume engages with the linguistic, ethnic, social, and historical complexities that make Taiwanese literature an ever-challenging field of inquiry.