Download or read book Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance written by Margaret Hillenbrand and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study which compares responses to modernity in the literary cultures of contemporary Japan and Taiwan. Moving beyond the East-West paradigm that has traditionally dominated comparativism, the volume explores these literatures within the regional frame.