The Descriptions of Females, Children and Homeland during Japanese Colonial Era in Taiwan－Centering on Camellia and Decumbent People of Zhang Wen-Huan's Novels
| Autor: | Yen-Hui Lee, 李妍慧 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 Zhang’s novels focus on female issues. This paper investigates the relationship between the gaze of children, the female subject and the nostalgic writhing and Zhang’s writing consciousness from Zhang Wen-Huan’s two novels, ‘Cameillia’, “Decumbent People”. Firstly, this paper analyses how Zhang’s life experience affects his nostalgic writing in his novels and thus making him using the narration of children and female to reveals his feelings toward the home land. His life experience includes his living background in Taiwan, his literary encounters and reading experience in Tokyo. Zhang’s narration on children and female with local background tries to criticize traditional feudal patriarchal system in Taiwan. His writing raises Taiwanese’s ability of self-articulation, making Taiwanese scrutinizing problems caused by colonial modernity. Therefore, Zhang’s writing reverts Japanese colonizer’s discrimination on Taiwanese. Secondly, by analysis on the relationship of the gaze of children, female subject and home land, this paper focuses on the formation of urban youth intellectuals’ ideology in the era of change from the process of development of youth intellectual’s agency. Further, this paper tries to see how this formation reveals the struggle of home land as tradition and urban as modernity. The analysis of “Decumbent People” focuses on the limitation and development of female subjects within three families of four generations. Here it tries to raise a question how a citizen finds a peaceful life when faced the challenge of life in the changing era of colonial period. Here it also focuses how Zhang shows his feelings on home land through the narration of children and female. While criticizing modern civilization and re-examining traditional culture, Zhang Wen-Huan’s writing also shows his humane concern and anti-colonial consideration. Zhang’s literary works focus on humane perspective and breaks the borders of ethnicity. His writing also shows his concern and feelings on Taiwan history. Through his literary work, it’s possible to see his ideal world without gender/ class/ ethnic difference. |
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