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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9782360570522
Collection: Liminaires
10.1 x 18 cm
Weight: 71 gr
Pages: 72
First publication: 04/03/2015
Last printing: 04/2021

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Une Tablette aux ancêtres

"If I had been Taiwanese, I probably would have thrown in front of me the big wooden propitiatory beans, the 卜茭 boa-bue, three times to see if all these gods world approved of my amazing adventure. "

A researcher based in Taiwan is confronted with the discovery of a funerary tablet in an abandoned house. His life and consciousness are upset: spirits and ghosts of Taiwan and China visit him, surround it and testify of their history. This short book is the first of a new collection entitled "Liminaires": a collection of literary texts evocating a geographical and cultural elsewhere. The diversity of experience here gives voice to the intimate ways of engaging in a sensitive narrative, narrative of the other and self-revealing.

Literary narrative with cultural and historical developments on Taiwan at the end of the book.

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PRESS REVIEW

“... Stéphane Corcuff surprises us with his ability to romanticize his experience, while remaining faithful to reality. We devour Une Tablette aux ancêtres as we read a story, with a narration that avoids the overload of details, the number one danger of this kind of exercise. It is a success, therefore, which does not forget to get to the end of its subject, ... "

(culturellementvotre.fr, 26/02/2016)
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CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Stéphane Corcuff

Stéphane Corcuff (born in Brest in 1971) obtained his doctorate in 2000 from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. A teacher-researcher specializing in the Chinese world, he particularly studies Taiwan - where he lived for long periods - from the perspective of the identity dynamics of its margins, its geopolitical history and its political recomposition. Director of the Taipei Branch of CEFC 2013 to 2017, he is a member of the editorial board of "China Perspectives".


COLLECTION

Liminaires
ISSN : 2427-0016
A collection of literary texts testifying to a geographical and cultural elsewhere. The experience of diversity here gives the voices of the intimate the means to engage in a sensitive storytelling, story of the other and revealing of oneself.