Global Time-Space Reorderings: Literary, Cultural, and Cinematic Transformations

　　Global Time-Space Reorderings: Literary, Cultural, and Cinematic Transformations transnationally explores the impact of globalization on the reconceptualization of time and space in modern and contemporary literature, culture, and cinema. Yi-Hsuan Tso’s examination includes the novel Magical Mountain by the Nobel Literature Laureate Gao Xingjian, the Taiwanese Canadian poet Lo Fu’s epic Driftwood, the work of Taiwanese woman poet Hsia Yü, the Taiwanese documentary Let It Be, and third wave feminism in Taiwan. The book maintains that there are at least three axes of global time-space reordering. The first axis is the possibility of escape and freedom in time-space. In Magical Mountain, the escape from civilization is facilitated by the utopian nature with which a person communicates spiritually. Likewise, in Lo Fu’s Driftwood, the self gains freedom through the transcendence of local, local-global, and global time-space. The second axis is a translocal consciousness exemplified by the double-center globally migrating identity in Lo Fu’s Driftwood, the local, regional, and global entanglements in Taiwanese third wave feminism, and the acentric poetics of Hsia Yü. The third axis is the debate in Let It Be over whether to sustain the local-global economic interconnection or to lessen this interconnectivity confronting the spaces smoothed out by capitalism’s laissez faire policy.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1  Introduction

Chapter 2  Nature as Refuge in the Globalized World: The Form of Gao Xingjian’s Magical Mountain
　　The Pneumatic Nature
　　Nature as Refuge in a Globalized World

Chapter 3  Globalization or Diaspora? Lo Fu’s Global Poetry
　　Globalization and Literature
　　The Transcendence of Time and Space
　　Migration vs. Diaspora, and the Global or the Regional?
　　Global Aesthetic
　　Conclusion: Space, Time, and Double-center Globally Migrating Self

Chapter 4  Globalization and the Taiwanese Character: Let It Be and the Documentary
　　Introduction
　　The Taiwanese Character and Cinema
　　Six Attributes of the Taiwanese Character
　　The Documentary Audience’s Emotions and the Self-Reflexive Style
　　Conclusion: The Omnibus Film Theory

Chapter 5  Globalization, Third Wave Taiwanese Feminism, and Hsia Yü’s Poetry
　　Introduction
　　This Wave: Recognition and Diversity
　　Girls Are Not Women
　　The Globalized Family
　　Violence of the Nation-State and Intimate Others
　　Invisible Women and Girls
　　Global Agendas Elsewhere
　　Global Time-Space, the Self, and Third Wave Womanness in Hsia Yü’s Poetry
　　Conclusion

Chapter 6  Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

作者簡介



Yi-Hsuan Tso（左乙萱）

　　Yi-Hsuan Tso is Assistant Professor at the National Taiwan Normal University. She has authored journal articles and book

　　chapters on Taiwanese cinema, feminism, Cathy Song, Rita Dove, John Keats, American multicultural poetry, and globalization curriculum. Her work also includes encyclopedia entries on contemporary American poetry as well as translations for a psychology textbook, poems, and newspaper articles.