Global Time-Space Reorderings: Literary, Cultural, and Cinematic Transformations transnationally explores the impact of globalization on the reconceptualization of time and space in modern and contemporary literature, culture, and cinema. Yi-Hsuan Tso’s examination includes the novel Magical Mountain by the Nobel Literature Laureate Gao Xingjian, the Taiwanese Canadian poet Lo Fu’s epic Driftwood, the work of Taiwanese woman poet Hsia Yü, the Taiwanese documentary Let It Be, and third wave feminism in Taiwan. The book maintains that there are at least three axes of global time-space reordering. The first axis is the possibility of escape and freedom in time-space. In Magical Mountain, the escape from civilization is facilitated by the utopian nature with which a person communicates spiritually. Likewise, in Lo Fu’s Driftwood, the self gains freedom through the transcendence of local, local-global, and global time-space. The second axis is a translocal consciousness exemplified by the double-center globally migrating identity in Lo Fu’s Driftwood, the local, regional, and global entanglements in Taiwanese third wave feminism, and the acentric poetics of Hsia Yü. The third axis is the debate in Let It Be over whether to sustain the local-global economic interconnection or to lessen this interconnectivity confronting the spaces smoothed out by capitalism’s laissez faire policy.
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作者简介
Yi-Hsuan Tso(左乙萱)
Yi-Hsuan Tso is Assistant Professor at the National Taiwan Normal University. She has authored journal articles and book
chapters on Taiwanese cinema, feminism, Cathy Song, Rita Dove, John Keats, American multicultural poetry, and globalization curriculum. Her work also includes encyclopedia entries on contemporary American poetry as well as translations for a psychology textbook, poems, and newspaper articles.
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Nature as Refuge in the Globalized World: The Form of Gao Xingjian’s Magical Mountain The Pneumatic Nature Nature as Refuge in a Globalized World
Chapter 3 Globalization or Diaspora? Lo Fu’s Global Poetry Globalization and Literature The Transcendence of Time and Space Migration vs. Diaspora, and the Global or the Regional? Global Aesthetic Conclusion: Space, Time, and Double-center Globally Migrating Self
Chapter 4 Globalization and the Taiwanese Character: Let It Be and the Documentary Introduction The Taiwanese Character and Cinema Six Attributes of the Taiwanese Character The Documentary Audience’s Emotions and the Self-Reflexive Style Conclusion: The Omnibus Film Theory
Chapter 5 Globalization, Third Wave Taiwanese Feminism, and Hsia Yü’s Poetry Introduction This Wave: Recognition and Diversity Girls Are Not Women The Globalized Family Violence of the Nation-State and Intimate Others Invisible Women and Girls Global Agendas Elsewhere Global Time-Space, the Self, and Third Wave Womanness in Hsia Yü’s Poetry Conclusion
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
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节录自〈Nature as Refuge in the Globalized World: The Form of Gao Xingjian’s Magical Mountain〉
In our era of globalization, the first axis of time-space reordering within modern literature is the possibility of escapism and freedom in time-space. In Gao’s Magical Mountain, nature is the utopia to which the protagonist and Gao flee in search of freedom from the constraints of civilization and the institutions of the nation-state. The rapport between the main character and his environment is textually manifest through the fusion of mind and nature expressed in the novel’s language and form.