Sylvia Lin, Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film

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This is a review of Sylvia Lin's important book-length consideration of literature and film from Taiwan that addresses issues of historical trauma such as the February 28th Incident of 1949 and the resulting White Terror period that lasted for several decades in Taiwan. Lin deals with some well-known authors but she also devotes attention to Taiwanese literary figures that are not as well known outside of Taiwan. The book is theoretically savvy, as it draws on the work of Dominick LaCapra, Pierre Janet, Mieke Bal, Ann Whitehead, Maurice Halbwach, Maureen Turim, Avrom Fleishman, and Thomas Elsaesser, among others.

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