Bibliograph

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

Type

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bamboo Shoots After the Rain

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan

Summary

This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen 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. 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

Target audience

adult

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