ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that Taiwan's feminist fiction presents itself as a hybrid body of writing. Gender-related issues receive focal attention in Taiwan's feminist fiction as they do in feminist fiction of other cultures and literary nationalities. Women's issues that have been delved into for discussion and debate in Taiwan's feminist fiction revolve more or less around the same topics. The "decline" in artistic competence the reader witnesses in Dark Night evidences the difficulty often confronted by feminist writers when they deal with sexuality and sexual relations. Sisterhood and women's community constitute an important thematic concern of a number of feminist writers. In terms of political organization, the current feminist groups in Taiwan are sundry in nature, goal, and self-definition. The entire body of literary writing that we call Taiwan's feminist fiction is in fact a social and cultural text which thematizes the writers' discontents with the predominant patriarchal culture.
