{"pk":57931,"title":"Snail Paradise Trilogy: A Series by Chang En-man","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In 1933, a Japanese colonial official introduced the giant African snail (\nAchatina fulica\n), originally from East Africa, to Taiwan from Singapore to be raised for food. Since 2009, I have given presentations on this snail, including projects involving recipes, embroidery, maps, interviews, collaborations, and multimedia work. My inspiration comes from my Paiwan (an Indigenous group in Taiwan) mother, who would always gather snails after the rain, cook them, and give them to my siblings and me to eat. Snails were the starting point for my research into my maternal bloodline, which is part of the Taiwanese Indigenous bloodline. From there, I considered how the path of the snail’s dispersal is comparable to the route of imperial expansion in the Pacific, and looked at Taiwan’s history and its relationship to the world. This paper considers my evolving project centered around the giant African snail and offers my thoughts on how traditional Indigenous Taiwanese cooking and sewing practices may be reinterpreted as a strategy for resisting colonisation.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"First Nations, giant African snail, Taiwan Indigenous people, Paiwan, cross-stitching, cooking, installation art"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sn1w9wt","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"En-man 張恩滿","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chang","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2022-12-11T21:47:46Z","date_accepted":"2022-12-11T21:47:46Z","date_published":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/pacificarts/article/57931/galley/44107/download/"}]}