Island Margin Magazine Founded

Source: Isle Margin Magazine
From: Isle Margin Magazine Society

Isle Margin magazine was published by Wang Hao-wei, Yao Li-ch’ün, and others. Its contributors were a diverse mix — new leftists, postmodernists, urban space reformers, psychoanalytic theorists, feminists, and marginal arts workers — but broadly shared a consensus of “transcending narrow unification/independence nationalist discourse and engaging in comprehensive radical democratic struggle.” Confronting the social and political-economic conditions of the post-martial law era from the late 1980s to the 1990s, they chose a path of struggle that avoided direct frontal confrontation — “marginal combat” — as a discursive and practical strategy against the power bloc. Publishing a total of fourteen issues, Isle Margin ceased publication in 1996 due to funding shortfalls and dwindling participation.

Isle Margin, Issue 6, 1993

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External Links

• Isle Margin and Taiwan’s Postmodern Left (Contemporary Cultural Studies)
• Re-tracing the Tracks That Once Existed — A Discursive History of Isle Margin (Yen Shan-nung)
• Isle Margin: New Praxis Discourse of Taiwan’s Left at the Turn from the 1980s to the 1990s (Ch’en Hsiao-yin, master’s thesis)
• Isle Margin (Browse online)