The Extension of Space in Globalization: The Globally Extended Space and Human Rights in Theories and Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese and American Poetry explores theories on space and theories on human rights in the globally extended space in Part I and canvasses modern and contemporary Taiwanese and American poetry on the globally extended space in Part II, citing theories and poetry, and commenting on cultures. This book raises large theoretical questions about the solely national and local definitions of space, human rights, and literature. In Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, Part I of this book, Sarah Yihsuan Tso argues that space and human rights, sites of contestation, are global-cum-local in various dimensions and are deterritorializing. Tso maintains in Chapters 4 to 6, Part II of this book, that modern and contemporary Taiwanese and American poetry illuminates the impacts of the globally extended space on freedom, the human mind, place, and poetics. Part II examines the poems expounding the globally extended space in globalization written by seven acclaimed major poets including Taiwanese poets Chou-yu Cheng, Wan-yu Lin, Hsiung Hung, Hsia Yu, and Yin Ling and American poets Jorie Graham and Bei Dao.

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