This essay considers Taiwan Residents thinker Chen Yingzhen as a contemporary medium of history so as to investigate his decades-long literary praxis. In particular, it analyzes the ways in which Chen Yingzhen powerfu...This essay considers Taiwan Residents thinker Chen Yingzhen as a contemporary medium of history so as to investigate his decades-long literary praxis. In particular, it analyzes the ways in which Chen Yingzhen powerfully epitomizes the ＂（ira）possibility of love＂ through the problematic of historical integration： a problematic speaking to tradition, colonialism, and the Cold War/neocolonialism all at once. In virtue of his literary and intellectual accomplishment, this essay attends to the three key notions of ＂division,＂ ＂civil war,＂ and ＂people＂ as cross-referencing domains. At the same time, via a cross-referencing framework, this essay offers a perspective from Korea, demonstrating the historical specificities of South Korea by situating South Korea in the context of the region of East Asia.展开更多
文摘This essay considers Taiwan Residents thinker Chen Yingzhen as a contemporary medium of history so as to investigate his decades-long literary praxis. In particular, it analyzes the ways in which Chen Yingzhen powerfully epitomizes the ＂（ira）possibility of love＂ through the problematic of historical integration： a problematic speaking to tradition, colonialism, and the Cold War/neocolonialism all at once. In virtue of his literary and intellectual accomplishment, this essay attends to the three key notions of ＂division,＂ ＂civil war,＂ and ＂people＂ as cross-referencing domains. At the same time, via a cross-referencing framework, this essay offers a perspective from Korea, demonstrating the historical specificities of South Korea by situating South Korea in the context of the region of East Asia.
