Comparative study of contemporary nativist literary and cultural movements in China and Taiwan.
Nativism and Modernity is the first comparative study of xiangtu nativism in Taiwan and xungen nativism in China. It offers a new critical perspective on these two important literary and cultural movements in contemporary Chinese contexts and shows how nativism can be a vital form of place-based oppositional practice under global capitalism. While nativism has often been viewed in nostalgic terms, Ming-yan Lai instead focuses on the structural implications of nativist oppositional claims and their transformations of marginality into alternative discursive spaces and practices. Through contextual analysis and close readings of key texts, Lai addresses interdisciplinary issues of modernity and critically explores the two nativist discourses' various engagements with power relations covering a multitude of social differentiations, including nation, class, gender, and ethnicity.
| ISBN: | 9780791472866 |
| Publication date: | 8th January 2009 |
| Author: | Mingyan Lai |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 242 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary theory |
Comparative study of contemporary nativist literary and cultural movements in China and Taiwan.
Nativism and Modernity is the first comparative study of xiangtu nativism in Taiwan and xungen nativism in China. It offers a new critical perspective on these two important literary and cultural movements in contemporary Chinese contexts and shows how nativism can be a vital form of place-based oppositional practice under global capitalism. While nativism has often been viewed in nostalgic terms, Ming-yan Lai instead focuses on the structural implications of nativist oppositional claims and their transformations of marginality into alternative discursive spaces and practices. Through contextual analysis and close readings of key texts, Lai addresses interdisciplinary issues of modernity and critically explores the two nativist discourses' various engagements with power relations covering a multitude of social differentiations, including nation, class, gender, and ethnicity.
Nativism and Modernity features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Literary theory
Nativism and Modernity is available in Paperback, Hardback
Nativism and Modernity was written by Mingyan Lai and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Nativism and Modernity has 242 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies series