Abstract
This essay highlights and analyzes postmodern characteristics of Chu T'ienwen's seminal 1994 novel Notes of a Desolate Man. It simultaneously undertakes a close reading of the novel and engages in a critical dialogue with other interpretations and contextual analyses surrounding this controversial text. This essay's main conclusion is that the novel's representation of gay male culture stigmatized by AIDS, in combination with its cosmopolitan postmodern panoplies, encourages readers to view postmodernity and postmodern literature in Taiwan as twin representatives of a debauched, contagious, and invasive foreign lifestyle and literature.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 47-77 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Journal | Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - Jun 2012 |
Keywords
- AIDS
- Alienation
- Contagion/infectious
- Non sequitur
- Pastiche
- Postmodernism
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