英文摘要 |
This article discusses Shuang Xuetao and Yang Junning’s participation in Taipei Literature Award in the context of a Sinophone“place,”to examine and challenge the possibilities and limitations of“place”within Sinophone studies. Sinophone studies values place and locality and has the energy to bring them to the world by simultaneously critiquing Chineseness. This approach excludes mainstream Chinese literature and therefore limits the diverse meanings“Sinophone places”can draw from contemporary China. Taipei Literature Award, representing Sinophone Taiwan’s local situation, encompasses multiple origins of meanings of place which stem against diaspora as well as from Chinese-language literary“communities”including mainland China. Shuang and Yang’s participation in the Taipei Literature Award confirms the“placesbased production”of literature in Taiwan and Taipei also includes China as a locale. Discussing the works of Shuang and Yang in this context can extend the Sinophone sphere to mainland China, and can be a supplement for the current research’s neglect of Chinese participation in Taiwanese literary awards. Through Taipei’s place writing, the interplay of multiple places in constructing Taipei’s identity exemplifies Sinophone studies’s multidimensional critical and dialogic potential. |