Tidal Poetics and Archipelagic Joy: Grace Hsieh-Hsing and the Taiwan–Philippines Literary Bridge (IMAGE)

Ateneo de Manila University

Tidal Poetics and Archipelagic Joy: Grace Hsieh-Hsing and the Taiwan–Philippines Literary Bridge

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This lecture examines how Philippine Sinophone poet Grace Hsieh-Hsing (1938–2021) developed what I call a “tidal poetics”—a scholarly concept I propose based on close readings of her work—to describe her transformation of the Philippine archipelago’s geographic reality into a metaphor for artistic creation and cultural identity. Through depictions of Philippine foodways, customs, and landscapes, Hsieh crafted a poetics both locally rooted and transnationally connected, using “archipelagic joy” to respond to the political rupture following the Taiwan–Philippines diplomatic break.

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Ateneo de Manila University

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