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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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Trauma and Literature, Volume 20

Trauma and Literature

By Hsinya Huang

The Ethical Turn of the Self and Other: Global Alterity and Ethnic Transformation in Homebody/Kabul

By Ivy I-chu Chang
In the post-9/11 theater, Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul is considered the most representative play. With an analysis on Homebody/Kabul, this article will discuss the postcolonial encounter between the imperialist eye and the Islamic other and also investigate how Kushner combines history, personal memories, and the polyglot linguistic practices to stage the stories of refugees and immigrants. Employing such politics as "the personal is the political," Kushner's narrative shuttles back and forth the First World and the Third World, enacting the collective memories and the personal experience of the global alterity and the local ethnicity. In addition to discussing the socio-political context of the production of this play, this article will employ Levinas' notion of radical alterity, linguistic practice, and absence to explore the dialectics between the past and the present, between history and catastrophe, in search of the ethical transformation of self/other, and the colonizer/the colonized.

Body Performance and Colonial Trauma in The Tempest

Adapted from Shakespeare's play The Tempest, the performance of The Contemporary Legend Theatre stages Sycorax, Caliban's deceased mother, to embody the trauma the colonizer brought about. By the theatricality of the aboriginal dance, it represents the mother earth of the island and formulates a resistance to the colonizer. This article uses post-colonial feminism to explore the script adaptation and how the theatrical arts represent the text. By adapting the western canon, this performance tells the ancient imperial and colonial story; meanwhile it implies the present local ethnic and political issues in Taiwan. This paper examines the women and the Other in the politics of The Tempest, the representation of Taiwan local issues through stage retheatricalization, and does the performance review in terms of Interculturalism. The "otherness" can be exemplified by the barbarian Caliban in Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Caliban and Prospero are imbued with the binary opposition, i.e., the colonized vs. the colonizer, and the aboriginal barbarous vs. the cultural cultivated. This paper applies Linda Hutcheon's theory of adaptation, Erika Fischer-Lichte's "retheatricalization," and Christopher Balme's theory of "theatricality" to analyzing this production. It combines western theater, Chinese Peking Opera, and Taiwanese aboriginal dance and ritual. In this way, it develops Homi Bhabha's "cultural hybridigy" in the intercultural theatre of heteroglossia.

In the Shadows of the American Dream: A Study of Chang-rae Lee's Writing of the Gesture Life

By Chiung-huei Chang
Korean American writer Chang-rae Lee has created an unidiomatic English to entitle his second novel, A Gesture Life, for portraying a life with affectations and disillusionments. In fact, "a gesture life" could serve as the title for Lee's first three novels since all his "admirable" protagonists lead a life with neither sincerity nor affections, mainly due to their long-suppressed trauma and their obsession of pursuing the American dream. This essay will firstly explicate how "a gesture life" denotes a modern allegory by comparing and contrasting it with passing, mimicry, double-consciousness and impersonation, and then present a reading of Lee's novels, so as to examine Lee's reflection on the American Dream.

The Extraordinary Ordinariness of Everyday Details: The Everyday and the Politics of Details in Virginia Woolf's Writings

By Jen-yi Hsu
Influenced by feminism and cultural studies, this paper investigates the representation of the everyday in Virginia Woolf's works. For many feminists, the history of Western metaphysics is a history of misogyny in which philosophical ideas have been centered on a series of value-laden and "gendered" dualisms. One example is the concept of everyday detail, which has been feminized and is denounced as an obstacle to the heightened, non-everyday realm of the sublime. However, this paper argues that while paying attention to the ordinary details of the everyday, Woolf also problematizes the metaphysical/physical dualism by exposing the strangeness in the everyday banality. Therefore, quotidian events can inspire epiphanic Event, ordinariness has already been extraordinary, and life-world bears an uncanny resemblance to metaphysical world. Analyzing images of the everyday in Woolf's selected prose works, experimental sketches, literary criticisms, and novels such as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, the paper demonstrates how Woolf emphasizes gendered, domestic, and laboring experiences in her aesthetics of the everyday, interrogating the masculinist prioritization of sublime and transcendence derived from Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. Also, Woolf's exploration of the sublime of the mundane makes her a precursor to postmodern theorists such as Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre.

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Everydayness, Volume 18
Everydayness, Volume 18
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