Introduction: Framing Taiwanese literature as world literature / Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li -- Part I: Bridging Taiwan and the world: Frameworks and tactics -- Taiwanese literature in two transnational contexts: Sinophone literature and world literature / Kuei-fen Chiu -- Worlding Taiwan: Taiwanese literature's contingent constructions / Carlos Rojas -- Worlding modalities of Taiwanese literature: Family saga, autobiographical narrative, and bildungsroman / Pei-yin Lin -- Part II: Bringing the world home: Transcultural practice in Taiwanese literature -- Reading Taiwan through Japanese and French literatures: The surrealism of 'Le Moulin' poetry society / Yi-chen Liu (translated by Blake Brownrigg) -- Responsible primitivism: Wu Ming-yi's 'The Man with the Compound Eyes' as indigenous-themed environmental world literature / Darryl Sterk -- The foreign at home: World literature, viral postmodernism, and 'Notes of a Desolate Man' / Nicholas A. Kaldis -- Part II: Bringing Taiwan to the world: Taiwanese literature in translation -- Anthologizing Taiwan: Taiwanese literature toward the anglophone world / John Balcom -- Settling in the world republic of letters: Taiwanese literature in French / Gwennaël Gaffric -- Voices from alternative literary fields: Translating Taiwanese literature into Italian / Federica Passi -- From Taiwan's literature to Taiwanese literature: A paradigm shift in Japanese translation / Ying-che Huang (translated by Sherlon Chi-yin Ip) -- Made in Taiwan: Reading Chiu Miao-chin's lesbian tales as world literature / Wen-chi Li -- Translation matters: The case of 'The Butcher's Wife' in English / Sheng-chi Hsu.
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"Explores the richness of 20th-century Taiwanese literature as multilingual and diverse-styled world literature, accentuating how it intersects with world literary trends and how it is perceived globally through translation"-- Provided by publisher.
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