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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The paper argues that a project to re-member China lies embedded in The Monster that Is History as Wang examines the monstrous violence which ravages modern China through the lenses of fiction. Through the alchemy of what the author calls 'diasporic ambivalence', it finally assumes the form of huawen wenxue, or Sinophone literature. As the project inevitably encounters resistance from the Taiwanese nativist, it falls into an aporia/differend between Sinophone and Taiwanese literature as struggling means to constitute a community formation.
*This paper comes from the author's MA thesis in comparative literature from the University of Washington. During the writing of the thesis, Professor Francisco Kiko Benetiz, my principal advisor, and Professor Yomi Braester, my reader, provided patient, careful and invaluable guidance. I have benefited tremendously from their comments and criticisms, though I alone, of course, am responsible for any inadequacy in the paper. I am most fortunate to have them as mentors: To them my deepest gratitude and heartfelt thanks
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