Angelwings : : Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Jiwen, Wu,; Ling, Hong,; Martin, Fran,; Miaojin, Qiu,; T'Ien-Hsin, Chu,; T'Ien-Wen, Chu,; Tawei, Chi,; Xue, Chen,; Ying, Lin Chun,; Yoshen, Hsu,; Yuyi, Lin,
• TeilnehmendeR: Martin, Fran.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Lesbian and gay--or queer--fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories presented here. Indeed, the meteoric rise of this ne...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Taiwan's Literature of Transgressive Sexuality
• Bodhisattva Incarnate
• Platonic Hair
• A Story of Spring Butterflies
• Stones on the Shore
• The Boy in the Pink Orchid Tree
• Who Is Singing?
• Searching for the Lost Wings of the Angel
• Poem from the Glass Womb
• A Stranger's Id
• Rose Is the Past Tense of Rise
• Chinese Titles
• About the Translator