Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558610189 ISBN 13: 9781558610187

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993

Synopsis

This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, age, and political perspectives.

It is filled with "unexpected gems", writes Scarlet Cheng in Belles Lettres, including Lin Hai-yin's story of a woman suffering under a feudal system that dominated Old China; Chiang Hsiao-yun's optimistic solutions to problems of the elderly in the rapidly changing Taiwan of the 1980; and in between, a dozen richly diverse stories of aristocrats, comrades, wices, concubines, children, mothers, sexuality, rape, female initiation, and the tensions between traditional and modern life. "This is not western feminism with an Asian accent", says Bloomsbury Review, "but a description of one culture's reality... The woman protagonists survive both despite and because of their existence in a changing Taiwan." This book includes biographical headnotes, an introduction that addresses the literary movements represented, and an extensive bibliography.

About this title

About the Author:

ANN C. CARVER is professor emerita of English at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. SUNG-SHENG YVONNE CHANG is assistant professor of Oriental languages and literatures at the University of Texas, Austin.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

About this edition

• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1558610189
• ISBN 13: 9781558610187
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Carver Ann C., Chang Sung-sheng Yvonne