Isle of the Austronesian
Language: English
Published by Balestier Press, GB, 2025
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- Title
- Isle of the Austronesian
- Author
- Chang Ti-Han, Hsieh Hsin-Chin
- Publisher
- Balestier Press, GB
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1913891623
- ISBN 13
- 9781913891626
- Item weight
- 191 grams
Isle of the Austronesian: Indigeneity, World-Making and Taiwan brings together powerful literary and scholarly voices to explore the dynamic contours of Indigeneity in Taiwan. This anthology features poetry, stories, and essays that reflect on land, memory, identity, and ecological belongings. Highlighting perspectives often overlooked-queer, urban, and female Indigenous experiences-it showcases the richness and diversity of Taiwan's Indigenous cultures. Writers such as Salizan Takisvilainan, Ahronglong Sakinu, Syaman Rapongan, Ma Yi-Hang, Apyang Imiq, and Liglav A-wu offer narratives rooted in both tradition and transformation. This anthology reimagines Taiwan not just as an East Asian society but as an oceanic and Austronesian world-making space, where Indigenous voices lead conversations on history, sovereignty, and cultural renewal.
Published in collaboration with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Science and Technology Council, National Museum of Taiwan Literature, and National Taiwan University.
Table of Contents:
Preface: A Thousand Words across the Miles: A Taiwanese Knowledge Experiment by Huang Chun-Ju
Two Forms of Knowledge, One Act of Reading: The Convergence of Academic Research and Literary Creation by Su Shuo-Bin
Introduction: Narrating the Isle: Indigeneity and the Remapping of Taiwanese Literature by Chang Ti-Han and Hsieh Hsin-Chin
A Concerto of Identities: A Brief History of Ethnic Consciousness among Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples by Sun Ta-Chuan (Paelabang Danapan). Adapted by Zhang Yi-Wen. Translated by Amanda Ruiqing Flynn
From the Moment We Parted Ways ~ Austronesian beneath the Southern Cross by Salizan Takisvilainan. Translated by Catherine Xinxin Yu
The Light and Shade of the Mountain Forests: The History of Land Use in Taiwan's Mountainous Areas by Kuan Da-Wei (Daya). Adapted by Tsai Yi-Chen. Translated by Aoife Cantrill
The Wind Walker by Ahronglong Sakinu. Translated by Wang Jo-Hsuan
Sailing Towards the Austronesian World by Chen Chih-Fan. Adapted by Lin Chi-Han. Translated by Wang Jo-Hsuan
The Dorado's Spirit by Syaman Rapongan. Translated by Kyle Shernuk
Where is Our Refuge? The Plight of Queer Indigenous People in Cities and in Their Communities by Ciwang Teyra, Huang Chao-Kai and Hsieh Wan-Rong. Adapted by Chang Hao-Tang. Translated by Aoife Cantrill
The Teacher's Village by Ma Yi-Hang. Translated by Eleanor Goodman
Tminum Yaku, Weaving and Me by Apyang Imiq. Translated by Eleanor Goodman
The Journey of Indigenous Women by Yang Tsui. Adapted by Ring Anchi. Translated by Amanda Ruiqing Flynn
My Mother's Juancun Days by Liglav A-wu. Translated by Catherine Xinxin Yu
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About the Author
Hsin-Chin Hsieh is Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at National Taiwan University. Before joining NTU, she taught at Wesleyan University in the U.S. and at the National Taipei University of Education in Taiwan. She has served as Secretary-General of the Association for Taiwan Literature and was a visiting scholar at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan at the University of Tübingen in Germany. She is also a member of the editorial board for The Cambria Sinophone Translation Series and has guest-edited issues for the Journal of Chinese Cinemas and Taiwan Lit. Her research interests include contemporary Taiwan literature, film and documentary studies, migration studies, film adaptation, and transmedia narrative. Her work particularly examines the relationship between contemporary cultural production and migration-both inbound and outbound-in the context of Taiwan. She is the co-editor of The Afterlives of Taiwan Literature (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Press, 2023).
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