| Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature of Taiwan and the South Subjects: Japanese literature -- Taiwan -- History and criticism; World War 1939–1945 -- Literature and the war; Literature and society -- Taiwan; Under an Imperial Sun examines literary, linguistic, and cultural representations of Japan's colonial South (nanpô). Building on the most recent scholarship from Japan, Taiwan, and the West, it takes a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary, comparative approach that considers the views of both colonizer and colonized as expressed in travel accounts and popular writing as well as scholarly treatments of the area's cultures and customs. |