Fiction and Drama小說與戲劇第二十卷第二期

In the latest issue of Fiction and Drama, four great articles were accepted as follows. Prof. Hsin-Ju Kuo investigates the theoretical discussions of the entangled relationship between women immigrants’ identity re-formation and culinary praxis in the transnational context and then examines women immigrants’ traumatic experience of disassociation engendered by the process of emigration and cultural displacement. In the second article, Through analyzing the representation of cultural landscape and the uneven distribution social spaces for different races in the two Australian films, Prof. Chi-Szu Chen explicates the uneven development of mobility and focuses on how politics of mobility and access is inscribed in the moral geographies and applied in creating space of survival in a colonial social sphere. In the third essay, early critical response to Don DeLillo’s most recent novel, Point Omega, is considered in light of DeLillo’s visionary propensities, his uncanny ability. Prof. Jonathan Butler claims that more emphasis should be placed on DeLillo’s intended purpose, to “suggest” things rather than articulate them in sharp detail, a purpose commensurate, with the nature of speculating on such an “evolutionary leap” for humanity. While the forth article argues that post-Holocaust forgiveness should be read along with the-yet-to-be-worked-through trauma of Holocaust survivors by re-reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated.

期刊簡介
Fiction and Drama has been published by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University since 1989. Throughout the years, the journal has been devoted to studies on both fiction and drama genres in international and Taiwan literatures. It publishes contextual, thematic, and theoretical research papers as well as reviews of recent book publications. The journal has been indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

編輯群
Chen, Kuo-jung (陳國榮)
Chiou, Yuan-guey (邱源貴)
Feng, Pin-chia (馮品佳)
Lin, Jiann-guang (林建光)
Liu, Hsueh-Chen (劉雪珍)

Culinary Narratology in Everyday Life: The Foodways and Identity Formations of South Asian Women Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Mrs. Sen’s” and The Namesake
Hsin-Ju Kuo 郭欣茹 (China Medical University)
Indigenous Mobility in Rabbit-Proof Fence and Australia: Landscape of Dominance, Space of Survival
Chi-Szu Chen 陳吉斯 (Tamkang University)
“Armageddon, Armageddon…Have Another Cocktail, Darling!”: Don DeLillo’s Point Omega and the End of the World as We Know It
Jonathan Butler (Kainan University)
“The Silence was a Mountain”: Forgiveness and Post-Holocaust Memory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated
Mei-Yu Tsai 蔡美玉 (National Chung Cheng University)