Whosestory is it? - Postmodernism, history and "historiographic metafiction" in the context of Taiwanese literature

Title:

Whosestory is it? - Postmodernism, history and "historiographic metafiction" in the context of Taiwanese literature

Creator:

Benešová, Jana

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:af76fc91-5e91-4662-8f83-8313bbeea961
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Subject:

Taiwan, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and contemporary Taiwanese fiction

Type:

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Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

The commonly encountered account ot the postmodern (including postmodernist cultural practices) is the one based on (or very similar to) Fredric Jameson´s view of postmodernism as representing the logic of late capitalism and being defined by the issues of surface, pastiche and paranoia. This also includes Jameson´s criticism of postmodernism´s supposed ahistoricity (or belief that when it uses history, it does so in a naive and sentimentally nostalgic way). Such is also the prevalent definition of the postmodern in Taiwan, most recently adopted, for example, in Liu Liangya´s new publication, Postmodernism and Postcolonisalism: Taiwanese Fiction since 1987. Offering an alternative view, this article deploys Linda Hutcheon´s project of "problematics" of postmodernism to argue that as opposed to the more or less dualistic view of postnodern vs. postcolonial tencencies in contemporary Taiwanese fiction (especially as regards postmodernism´s relation to history) it is also possible to describe the constant revisiting of the past in numerous novels by different authors in post-martial-law Taiwan in terms of Hutcheon´s "postmodern historiographic metafiction". This thesis is further demonstrated by means of an analysis of a short story by Lai Xiangyin.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Archiv orientální | 2010 Volume:78 | Number:3

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CDK

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