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REAL: Review of English and American Literature [Yingmei wenxue pinglun]

Review of English and American Literature (REAL) is a journal of the English and American Literature Association of the Republic of China founded in 1993. REAL is published by Bookman Books Ltd. biannually (June and December) and is devoted to publishing innovative research results concerning English and American literature written in Mandarin Chinese. REAL was rated as the first-class journal by the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2003. Contributions from domestic and foreign researchers of English and American literatures are welcomed.

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June 2015, Volume 26

Editorial

By TEE Kim Tong

Unspeakable Secrets: Shame in Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark

By Yu-chen Lin
Adopting Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's theory, this tri-part essay explores one of the dominant emotions portrayed in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark -- shame. Part one engages Abraham and Torok's notion of "the phantom" to interpret the narrator's family secret and the collective trauma of Catholic minorities in Northern Ireland. Part two is devoted to the narrator's attempt to construct his parents' traumatic memories and its subsequent pitfalls, through Abraham and Torok's category of "the transgenerational phantom." Part three deals with the narrator's ethical dilemma as he tries to disclose his parents' secrets. In conclusion, this author ponders the significance of this novel by examining the title's multi-layered meaning.

Shame and Absorbed Theatricality: Sympathy’s Lines of Escape in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

By Te-hsuan Yeh
This paper seeks to reinterpret Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from an affective viewpoint. While past readings of the novel are mostly premised upon an intersubjective model of sympathy, I contend that there exists a different mode of sympathy which is arguably anti-intersubjective. As can be witnessed in the novel's three first-person narrators--Walton, Frankenstein, and the monster--the subject in shame may well escape into a discourse of sympathy whose linguistic subject position can in effect be filled by any other speaker who takes up the role as "I," thus making language substitute for visual intersubjectivity. In the novel, the relayed narratives of the three characters form a movement of inward spiraling which in its turn gives rise to a theater of absorption, where sympathetic discourses, after repeated ventriloquizations and paraphrasings, come to obliterate the distinctions between linguistic subjects. This textualized, desubjectified mode of sympathy, however, also becomes the very source of anxiety due to its radical implication of death. Both of the most prominent gothic elements of the novel - shapeshifting anxiety surrounding the loss of ego boundaries and male homosocial fear of being watched--arguably arise from the same conundrum posed by the conflict between the ideal of intersubjectivity and de-subjectified sympathy.

Henry VI in the Exclusion Crisis: Dual History and the Poetics of Fear in The Misery of Civil War

By Yi-hsin Hsu
In 1679, the "Country" opposition championed by the Earl of Shaftesbury introduced the Exclusion Bill in the House of Commons in order to exclude the Catholic heir presumptive, the Duke of York, from succession. The "Court Party," on the other hand, soon rallied against the Exclusionists on the grounds of royal prerogative and the precedence of hereditary succession. Partisan opposition and anxiety came to poisonous fruition on the London stage during what Robert Hume termed "the political eighties," resulting in a series of political plays that registered England's factious disputes surrounding the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Crisis. Among them, The Misery of Civil War, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth by John Crowne, riveted most attention because a riot provoked by the play's Toryism broke out at the play's premiere. Though overtly royalist in its treatments of high politics, the play voices alternative and critical comments on history as seen through the eyes of the common people. Crowne deleted a good number of Shakespeare's battlefield scenes, focusing instead on the dislocations, separations, and deaths caused by civil wars. Revising the definition of civil war outlined in the Exclusion Crisis, Crowne repositioned the play's outlook away from high politics and towards the private sphere. The Misery of Civil War thus features a poetics of fear that emphasizes emotional appeal instead of jurisprudential reasoning.

The Ambivalence of “International” Writing:  The Global/local Dialectics in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartogr

By Pei-chen Liao
In light of postcolonialism, diaspora and globalization studies, this paper examines the Pakistani diaspora writer Kamila Shamsie's "international" writing in Kartography (2002), with particular respect to the dialectics between the global and the local. By "international" writing, I mean both the novel as one involving more than one country and one "not belonging to the majority community for which the work is produced," hence suggesting another term for "minority writing" (Shamsie 2009:110). I approach the first level of ambivalence through analyzing the global movement of the Pakistani diaspora and their persistent attachment to the homeland in order to enrich the current scholarship of the novel that is mainly focused on the issues of class and ethnicity. At the same time, the novel portrays the internationalization or Westernization of the elite in Karachi. This dialectical ambivalence between the local and the global, while deconstructing the marginality of Karachi and highlighting the transnational influences of (neo)colonialism, challenges the perspective of the largely white audience in the West who regard "international" writing as one that reinvigorates the mainstream culture.

Robert Tally, Spatiality (Book Review)

By Yu-yen Liu

Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists (Book Review)

By Nai-an Shih

Reflections on Anglo-American Literary Studies in Taiwan 2014

By Chien-ting Yeh

From Erudition to Expertise, from Classics to Pluralism: The Making of "Irish Studies Association, Taiwan"

By Wei H. Kao

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