Writing Back Across the Pacific: Taiwanese American Writer Shawna Yang Ryan

This lecture will discuss Taiwanese American writer Shawna Yang Ryan and her literary work Green Island (2016), which centers around the 28 February 1947 Incident. The 2/28 Incident and its bloody follow-up, the White Terror era, have come to acquire the status of the ‘national trauma of Taiwan’ and consequently the foundational metaphor of Taiwanese nativist identity.

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