(En)gendering the Nation in Pai Hsien-yung's "Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream"

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Lupke, Christopher

• This article traces the intricate web of allusions in Bai Xianyong's (Pai Hsien-yung) short story "Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream" to uncover how allusion helps constitute an imagined national community for the female protagonist in the story. It draws on notions of postcoloniality and exile and is inspired by Freud's classic article "Das Unheimlich" (The Uncanny).

• Date created

  1992-09-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • nation, modernism,
  • gender, sexuality,
  • dream,
  • allusion,
  • stream-of-consciousness,
  • uncanny, unheimlich, repression,
  • repetition.
  • mid-20th Century
  • Taiwan, mainland China

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-jdgk-bm37

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International