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Queering the Colony: Tracing and Resisting Japanese Imperial History in Taiwan Travelogue
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s 2020 award-winning novel, Taiwan Travelogue is a historiographic metafictional examination of Japanese colonialism as situated within the prism of global imperial motions. In this essay, I argue that Taiwan Travelogue queers Japanese imperial history by exposing colonial power as simultaneously mimetic, heteronormative, and unstable.