Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature of Taiwan and the South
Faye Yuan KleemanStruggling with these often conflicting views, Taiwanese authors, including the Nativists Yang Kui and Lu Heruo and Imperial Subject writers Zhou Jinpo and Chen Huoquan, expressed personal and societal differences in their writing. This volume looks closely at their lives and works and considers the reception of this literature--the Japanese language literature of Japan's colonies--both in Japan and in the former colonies. Finally, it asks: What do these works tell us about the specific example of cultural hybridity that arose in Japanese-occupied Taiwan and what relevance does this have to the global phenomenon of cultural hybridity viewed through a postcolonial lens? Simultaneously broad and admirably nuanced,Under an Imperial Sun incorporates sophisticated scholarship with primary materials to present a rich and complex picture of the workings of colonialism.