Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Acknowledgments 9
5. Introduction 11
6. I Multiple Realities
7. 1. The Death of Transnational Time : Locality, Reader Response, and the Strange Loop 25
8. 2. Redefining Family Women : The Ecofeminist Poetics of Shu Ting and Wang Xiaoni 45
9. 3. “Green mountains, green history, who will bear witness?” A Woman’s Montage: Zhai Yongming’s Following Huang Gongwang Through the Fuchun Mountains 65
10. 4. Deep Lyricism : Yu Jian’s “On the Ancient Road of Hubei’s Xishui County: A Detour” 89
11. 5. From a Poetry Popsicle to a Polymathic Herstorian : Xiao Bing’s Alternative Worlds Through the Lens of Critical Code Studies 111
12. II Formal Crossovers
13. 6. Lu Xun and Kuriyagawa Hakuson: Reading “Dead Fire” and “After Death” 133
14. 7. Ma Junwu’s Reinvented Lyricism : Revolutionary Landscape, Romanticism, Science Fiction, and Darwinian Geology 149
15. 8. To “World Poetry” and Back : Xutang’s Classicist Lyricism and the Ethnic Digital Bookshelf 169
16. 9. Nativism Revisited: Paradoxes in Modern Poetry in Taiwan 189
17. 10. Processing Strangers as Vital Jouissance in Hsia Yü’s First Person 213
18. III Liquid Boundaries
19. 11. “I Sing of Flesh”: The Rhythm of Mu Dan’s Self-translation 233
20. 12. Dark Tourism : Leung Ping-kwan’s Eastern European Journeys in 1990 and 1991 253
21. 13. Hong Kong’s Leftist Poetry: Sinophone and/or Huawen? 273
22. 14. Poetry and Subalternity: What Are We Looking for? 291
23. 15. Wu Xia’s Poetics of Affect 311
24. Bibliography 331
25. Index 355