Liminality of Justice in Trauma and Trauma Literature

Pi-hua Ni is a Full Professor of American and British Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Chiayi University, Taiwan. With expertise in postmodern literature, trauma literature, gender studies, diasporic literature and literary theories, she has published one book and several book chapters and journal articles on contemporary women writers, particularly women novelists’ re/visions of androcentric literature and tradition, African American fiction and postmodern fiction. Her latest publications include “Taiwanese Diaspora and Taiwanese American Identity: Julie Wu’s Third Son as a Cornerstone of Taiwanese American Literature” and “It is More than a Bunch of Numbers: Trauma, Voicing and Identity in Jennifer Chow’s The 228 Legacy.”Mei-Chuen Wang is an Associate Professor in the General Education Center at National Defense University, Taiwan. She has published articles in British Journal of Canadian Studies, Humanitas Taiwanica, and Fiction and Drama. Her current research focuses on the traumatic experiences and legacies of Indian residential schools in Indigenous literature.