The Postcolonial Paradox in the (Self-)Orientalization of Taiwanese History in Wei Te-Sheng‟s Action Saga
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| Title | The Postcolonial Paradox in the (Self-)Orientalization of Taiwanese History in Wei Te-Sheng‟s Action Saga |
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| Abstract | Viewed from a postcolonial angle, this paper intends to examine the paradoxical aspects of the Taiwanese director Wei Te-Sheng’s action saga by analyzing both the Orientalization of the Taiwanese aboriginal saga/epic and the literary aesthetics of minor writing/literature that happens to create a resistance literature in this movie. In other words, I plan to examine the problematic aspects—both positive and negative aspects—of Wei’s Orientalization of this epic/saga movie. And the main postcolonial literary theories appropriated in this paper are those of Said, Spivak, Bhabha and Deleuze. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2012-06-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 2, No 6 (2012) |
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