Confronting the other, defining a self : Hsiang-t'u literature and the emergence of a Taiwanese nationalism -- Toward the postmodern : Taiwanese new cinema and alternative visions of nation -- Remembering and forgetting, part I: history, memory, and the autobiographical impulse -- Remembering and forgetting, part II : Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwan trilogy -- Language and nationhood : culture as social contestation -- The country and the city : modernization and changing apprehensions of space and time -- Exile, displacement, and shifting identities : globalization and the frontiers of cultural hybridity -- Conclusion : from nation to dissemi-nation : postmodern hybridization and changing conditions for the representation of identity.
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