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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. |
Global English Literature, Volume 9
The theme of Review of English and American Literature is “Global English Literature.” This is no doubt an innovation in our domestic journal publication because it means the study of English and American literature in Taiwan is facing study of English literature which has freed itself from the limitation of so called national identity. English literature no longer means the construction of English and American national identity and its though of value only.
Translating Ireland: Brian Friel’s Translations
Adopting nationalism in conjunction with postcolonial discourse and translation theories, this paper explores the politics of Brian Friel's Translations. It begins with an inspection of the revision of national memory in post-independence Ireland in order to construct the cultural milieu of Friel's play, and proceeds to analyze the way Friel "translates" Ireland through plot, language, identity construct and the use of historical facts in response to the general impulse for translation characteristic of Irish national literature. Finally, it reconfigures the significance of Friel's translation of Ireland from the perspectives of the narrative of trauma and translation theories.
The Localization of World Literatures in English: The Study of New Literatures in English and American Ethnic Literatures in Taiwan
This paper provides an overview of the development of researches on new literatures in English and ethnic American literatures accomplished by Taiwanese scholars from 1950s to 2000. The first part of the paper discusses theoretical issues involved in the naming and definition of new literatures in English and the problematic of subjectivity for Taiwanese scholars who engage in this field of study. It also briefly introduces various research projects on the new literatures in English and other area studies here on the island. The second part focuses on the research of ethnic American literatures in Taiwan, and the advantages and disadvantages for Taiwanese scholars of this specific field.
Diaspora and Asian American Studies
In response to dislocation, distanciation, and difference, diasporas tend to form disjunctive subjectivities, often in the almost unrecognizable form of what Jacques Lacan terms "anamorphosis," of a contorted projection of hopes and fears into a distorted field of vision. Diasporas desire to belong while tortured by lack; their worldviews and discursive practices are informed by fetish desires to reproduce or to fill in the gap between the home and the new world. While theoretically productive and politically useful, diaspora studies have yet to map new territories. The cases offered tend to focus on North America or the English-speaking Indian or Caribbean communities. Comparative accounts have recently appeared, but they generally discuss global networks of capitalism initiated and controlled by the US. In the study of Chinese diasporas, for instance, a large proportion have been devoted to Asian Americans or the notion of "Chineseness," with only a handful to the Chinese of Europe, Australia, or southeast Asia.
Global Modernity, Post-colonial Writing, and Ethnic Violence: J. M. Coetzee's Youth and Disgrace
Focusing on J. M. Coetzee's Youth (2002) and Disgrace (1999), this essay investigates Coetzee's antithetical critique on the complicity between globalization, imperialism, and colonialism as well as on the paradoxical intertwining between global modernity and ethnic violence. The two novels reveal the predicament of "white writing" and "white anxiety" that has been compounded with the increasingly complicating issues of race, gender, and nationality of South Africa during what Roland Robertson calls "the period of uncertainty" in the process of globalization. Western modernity has developed as the consequence of globalization of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism, while the antithesis of modernity like institutionalized violence, racism, and ethnic violence have brought forth the phantasmogoric and provisional nature of western modernity.
Remapping English and American Literature? Postmodernism, Postcolonialism and the Issues Involved in the Globalization of English Writing
This paper explores the factors contributing to the increasingly "postnational" trend of English and American literature in the past decades. The impact of postmodernism, postcolonial discourse, which ushered in a huge bulk of the Third-World writings either written in or translated into English, and the popularity of cultural studies all contribute to the great currency and wide spread of English as lingua franca. The paper ends up emphasizing the importance of "infinity" in approaching English and American literature in the globalizing world.
Difference of the Void as Otherness: On Kantian-Sadean Enjoyment and Sublimity in Don DeLillo's The Names
This paper aims to explore the question of how the Kantian Pure Reason would in practice turn out to be Sadean terror in Don DeLillo's The Names. Using the concept of the Thing in Lacan's Seminar VII, I would argue that the unrepresentable void of the Other in the subject which in fact remains as the structural excess that resists symbolization may be easily mistaken for or confused with Kantian pure reason of transcendental idealism, or a priori, which also exists as a void beyond the empirical phenomenon. In DeLillo's novel those cultists who claim they have directly obtained God's pure reason might mistake the devilish voice of the death drive for the voice of God.
Eaten by the Other: Killing to Call for Resurrection in Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother
This paper argues that Jessie in Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother re-inscribes her existence under oppressive social relations by submitting to the Other, by which I mean death. By putting death on the highest rung of the ladder of exchange value, Jessie finds it the only place where dignity can be obtained. The paper, illustrating the internal and external agencies of the Other that consumes Jessie, argues that, in embracing the Other (the death), she puts herself at the summit of the great chain of being, where the unexchangeable value of dignity restores her dilapidated subjectivity. The internal agency of the Other that eats Jessie from within comes from Jessie's epilepsy, which stands in her way to construct subjectivity. The external agencies of the Other have something to do with Jessie's status as a consumer, if not as an all-time prey. To survive, Jessie puts herself on the summit of the chain to regain her subjectivity and dignity.
Other Issues
120423, Volume 43
061523, Volume 42
122022, Volume 41
062022, Volume 40
December 2016, Volume 29
June 2016, Volume 28
December 2015, REAL Volume 27
June 2015, Volume 26
December 2010, Issue 17
Senses and Literature, Volume 16
Homing and Housing, Volume 23
Special Topic: The Fantastic, Volume 24
Translation and Literatures in English, Volume 25
Jun 2013, Volume 22
Beyond the Canon, Volume 21
Trauma and Literature, Volume 20
Time Matters, Volume 19
Everydayness, Volume 18
Everydayness, Volume 18
Review of English and American Literature [Yingmei Wenxue Pinglun] vol. 15 December 2009, Volume 15
Word, Image, Space, Vol 14
Landscape and Literature, Vol 13
Local color of modern landscape, Volume 12
Review of English and American Literature [Yingmei Wenxue Pinglun] vol. 11, Volume 11
The City in English and American Literature, Volume 10
Innocence and manifest destiny, Volume 8
Modernism, Volume 7
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Renaissance: between innovation and tradition, Volume 5
Innocence and Manifest Destiny: The Core Issue of American Literature
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