Husluman Vava; Auvini Kadresengan; Badai (Shu-hwa Shirley Wu, transl.; David R. Braden, ed.) : Voices from the Mountain. Taiwanese Aborigional [sic] LiteratureThilo Diefenbach

ASIEN – Nr. 144 (2017) pp. 170–71

Taiwan: Serenity International, 2015. 175 pp., 11,99 USD / 360 NTD

Taiwanese aboriginal literature has become more and more visible since the lifting of martial law in 1987, not only because the number of authors and works has greatly increased, but also because the successive governments have paid more attention to protecting and supporting indigenous peoples 原住民 and their culture. Besides, renowned experts of Taiwanese literature like Chen Fang-Ming 陳芳明 and Peng Jueichin 彭瑞金 have been very active in researching and promoting literary works by aboriginal writers, most of whom still write in Chinese, even though some also publish in their native Austronesian languages using Latin script…