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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/rearticulations-foreign-litera
 ture-studies-in-taiwan/
SUMMARY:Re-Articulations: Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\nHe
 ld via Zoom – registration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/reg
 ister/tJEucOCpqTwiEtX3ewPRvf8kfFeqWZvmZKl7\n\nThis talk revisits the insti
 tutional and intellectual history of foreign literature studies in Taiwan 
 through the lenses of colonial modernity and traveling theory. It contends
  that the discipline of foreign literature studies is fundamentally a proj
 ect of re-articulation—not only to introduce the Western canon in local 
 contexts\, but moreover to resignify it in the global/local nexus for soci
 al political transformations. It is particularly wedded to the formation o
 f the Taiwan-China division born out of the civil war and Cold War context
 s in 1949. To explain the political meanings of its discipline formations\
 , I will focus on two examples: CT Hsia’s literary modernism as a form o
 f anti-Romanticism in the Cold War era and the translation of subjectivity
  as zhutixing in the post-martial law Taiwan. Whereas Hsia in the 1950s 
 intended literary criticism to be a means for political rectification in m
 odern China\, the translingual birth of zhutixing in the 1990s literaliz
 ed the power of theory in the making of postcolonial Taiwan.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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