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 characterizes Taiwan's postwar modernist literature as Cold War modernism par excellence that was born out of a constellation of Cold War circumstances, amounting to a perfect storm for its emergence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hsiao, Li-Chun (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2022].
Subjects:	Soldiers' writings, Chinese > Taiwan > History and criticism. Chinese poetry > Taiwan > History and criticism. Exiles' writings, Chinese > Taiwan > History and criticism. Chinese poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. Chinese poetry > Taiwan > American influences. Chinese poetry > Political aspects > Taiwan. Cold War in literature.

Table of Contents:

"Speech after long silence": The 1956 Manifesto and the obscure(d) beginnings of a Cold War modernism
A double-edged sword?: The rise of the soldier-poets and their modernist turn
Breaking ground in splendid isolation: Death of a stone cell and Cold War ethos
Two states of one peculiar modernism: from the US-aided literary establishment to the culture of US aids
At home in exile: the Cold War modernist, the expatriate, and the literature of exile.