Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation

by Victoria Chang and Marilyn Chin

Book Overview

This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of the island's contested national identities, first vis-?-vis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252071743
• ISBN13: 9780252071744
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"