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

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Synopsis
This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of 14 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.
Copyright:
1990

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
266 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781558617841
Related ISBNs:
9781558610170
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Ann C. Carver and Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Education, Social Studies
Grade Levels:
Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Ann C. Carver
Edited by:
Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang

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