Li-Chun Hsiao
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches
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The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches explores the trenches of freedom in which soldier-poets were surrealistically acquiesced to roam free under the aegis of pure literature and the buffer zone created by the US presence in Taiwan. It critically examines the anti-establishment character and gesture in the movement phase in terms of its entanglements with the state apparatus and the US-aided literary establishment. Taiwan's modernists counterbalance their retrospectively perceived excess and nuanced forms of exit with a series of spiritual and actual returns, upon which earlier traditionalist undercurrents would surface.
Format: Hardback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches argues that the modernist movement in postwar Taiwan created a unique literary environment that allowed for the emergence of new literature. This environment was made possible by the Cold War world order, which sustained the bubble in which Free China lived on borrowed time. The book explores the trenches of freedom within which the soldier-poets were surrealistically acquiesced to roam free under the aegis of pure literature and the buffer zone created by the US presence in Taiwan. It also examines the anti-establishment character and gesture in the movement phase in terms of its entanglements with the state apparatus and the US-aided literary establishment. Taiwan's modernists counterbalance their retrospectively perceived excess and nuanced forms of exit with a series of spiritual and actual returns, upon which earlier traditionalist undercurrents would surface. This modernism's mixed legacies, with its aesthetic avant-gardism marrying politically moderate or conservative penchants, date back to its bifurcated mode of existence and operation of separating the realm of the aesthetic from everything else in life during the Cold War.
Weight: 463g
Dimension: 236 x 158 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781498569095
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