Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century

Chapter 1 Introduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century

Chapter 2 Democracy Detoured and a Narrator Detached in the Political Fiction of Lai Xiangyin

Chapter 3 A Venture into Taiwan’s Political Changes and Historical Memories Through Li Ang’s “Beef Noodle Soup”

Chapter 4 Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-Ming’s Fiction

Chapter 5 Clipping Wings: A Chronicle and Wang Wen-Hsing’s Art

Chapter 7 Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zheng’s Science Fiction

Chapter 8 Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer Alternatives

Chapter 9 Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuan’s The Love that is Temporary and a Farewell Letter

Chapter 10 Liglav Awu, Child of the “Double Country”: The Clarion Voice of Indigenous Women in Taiwan

Chapter 11 Through an Indigenous Lens: Syaman Rapongan’s Rewriting of Oceanic Taiwan

Chapter 12 Migrants of Today, Migrants of Tomorrow in Wu Ming-yi’s Literary Works

Chapter 13 Anti-Japan or Becoming-Japanese: Li Yongping’s Writing on Japan in Postcolonial Taiwan

Chapter 14 Huang Chong-kai and the Taiwanese Novel of Ideas

Chapter 15 Escape and Return: Ghostly Representations of Home and Abroad in Kevin Chen’s “Summer Trilogy”

Chapter 16 Sketches on a Blank Slate: Shawna Yang Ryan’s Future-Oriented Memories of the Past

Chapter 17 National Border on the Tip of Tongue: The Limit of Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Count Down to Five Seconds of Crescent Moon