Identity and Effects of Shame: Contextualizing Contemporary Taiwanese Literary Production in the Sinophone World
| Autor: | Min-XuZhan, 詹閔旭 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 101 Current Chinese literary and cultural studies tend to conceptualize “shame” in the nationalistic context of the dialectic between the vision of new China and the identification of China as “sick man of Aisa.” However, with the rise of local consciousness in the Sinophone world, attention is increasingly directed toward a new sense of shame, namely, feeling ashamed of one’s Chinese identity. The effects of shame allow Chinese people to problematize their taken-for-granted ethnic, cultural, and emotional ties with a Chinese identity. The emerging trend of exploring one’s Chinese identity is reflected in contemporary Taiwanese literature, particularly nativist literature, diasporic writing, historiography, and family sagas. Insofar as the critique of Chinese identity, the notion of shame in this dissertation must be considered a positive, reflexive, and self-transformational affect rather than a negative feeling, as is typically presupposed. By considering Taiwanese literary production in the Sinophone context, this dissertation addresses the use of self-reflexivity accompanied by a sense of shame. Chapter 1 describes how the shame of the Sinophone offers an alternative methodology that can enhance current understanding of Sinophone identity in contrast to the discourse of “the sick man of Asia”. Chapter 2 addresses Shi Shu-chin’s Taiwanese historiographic fiction, Walking through Lo-chin. In this work, the author emphasizes the use of shame to shape Taiwanese subjectivity and place-driven imagination. Chapter 3 presents an analysis of the minor transnationalism of the Sinophone by focusing on the novel Back Inscription/Dari Pulau Ke Pulau/ From Island to Island written by Ng Kim Chew as a case study, and how the Sinophone world is articulated according to the shared structures of feelings of shame. Regarding the heterogeneity celebrated in Sinophone studies, this study also critically examines the dark aspects of such heterogeneous Sinophone imagination. Chapter 4 presents a discussion on Gao Xingjian’s play Snow in August, which was produced and sponsored by the Taiwanese government. By working with Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian to target a global audience, the Taiwanese government demonstrated strong intentions to reach the global stage, vividly embodying Taiwan’s cosmopolitan vision. Based on previous discussions on the shame of the Sinophone, Chinese nationalism in the Sinophone world is addressed in Chapter 5. This chapter presents a comparison of Pai Hsien-yung’s Kunqu opera Peony Pavilion with Chen Yingzheng’s novel Loyalty Park to describe the dialectic relationship between restorative Chinese nationalism and the reflective shame of the Sinophone. Chapter 6 provides a summary of previous arguments to demonstrate how this new notion of Sinophone shame, with its distinctive features of self-reflexivity and self-criticism, helps to shed light on a refreshing thinking to go beyond the minor antagonistic discourses rooted in Taiwanese literary research as well as Sinophone study. |
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