{"product_id":"9783031908309","title":"Memory Reconfiguration in Post-War Taiwanese Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the impact of martial law on transgenerational memory in post-World War II Taiwan. Through an intense focus on the symptoms of memories, Yu argues that collective remembrances in post-war Taiwan must be studied alongside the islanders' collective amnesia, as the post-war regime coerced its citizens into forgetting. To do so, the book examines the core issue through the lens of two fictional works: \u003cem\u003eGreen Island \u003c\/em\u003e(2016) by Shawna Yang Ryan and \u003cem\u003eThe Stolen Bicycle \u003c\/em\u003e(originally published in 2015, translated in 2017) by Ming-yi Wu, whose narrators belong to the post-war generation and find themselves unable to understand their parents' traumas. It also observes how the war generation memorize consecutive and entangled colonial experiences, experiencing linguistic and social diaspora without the act of migration. Ultimately, Yu argues that post-memory in these circumstances not only refers to secondary memory but bears an anti-memory characteristic as Taiwanese society under martial law shunned the traumas of WWII and the March Massacre in 1947. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter One: Introduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Texts \u0026amp; Literature Review.- \u003cstrong\u003eChapter Two: History \u0026amp; Method: \u003c\/strong\u003eA Sketch of History\u003cstrong\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003eMemory\u003cstrong\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003eTrauma \u0026amp; Representation\u003cstrong\u003e.- Chapter Three: Nostalgia: \u003c\/strong\u003eNostalgia: Habitus \u0026amp; Taboo\u003cstrong\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003eWWII \u0026amp; 228: Symbolic Capital in Reverse\u003cstrong\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003eMothers: Shades of Silence\u003cstrong\u003e.- Chapter Four: Polyglots: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Knowledgeable Past\u003cstrong\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003eMother Tongues \u0026amp; First Languages\u003cstrong\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003eLanguage Adaptation \u0026amp; Identity: Linguistic Migration \u0026amp; Selfhood\u003cstrong\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish: From Tool to Identity\u003cstrong\u003e.-Conclusion.            \u003c\/strong\u003e                                                                                                                \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChung-Yen Yu\u003c\/strong\u003e received his PhD from Australian National University. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52440072487223,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":243.75,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9783031908309-1.jpg?v=1783263397","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/zh\/products\/9783031908309","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}