Wu Sheng's Land Writing and Social Practice
| Autor: | Wu, Chien-Liang, 吳建樑 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 Wu Sheng, who is called “Poet of the Rural,” has always focused on land writing and social criticism in his work. This thesis aims at elaborating the influence of land on Wu Sheng and how the love and passion of land leads him to social practice. From a poet to a social activist, this helps him complete the self-construction of being an “organic intellectual.” Chapter II consists of Wu Sheng’s perspective on literature. From his self-description, interviews, poems and essays, this thesis tries to generalize Wu Sheng’s literary points of view. With the individual inquisitions between literature and land, literature and the society, literature and human beings, we find Wu’s concept of dependable rural life put into practice in his viewpoints on literature, by directly extracting from the text of his work. It is thus proved that the theme of his literary work is based on reality and the concern of land. Consequently, with the observation in chapter II on Wu’s thoughts of literature, chapter III emphasizes on Wu Sheng’s work of land writing. Detailed text analyses on Wu’s work with the approach of anthropogeography are developed in chapter III of this thesis, including the space of hometown Wu creates; that is to say, the land, home and the village where he lives. Thus, the dependent relationship between land and Wu, a farmer himself as well, is inevitably shown. When the dependent relationship between the farmer and land is sabotaged, and the frustration of his current situation is not able to be released and respected through his literary work, social practice turns out to be the new approach for Wu to express his love and passion toward land. In the recent years, Wu Sheng has appeared in press conferences and protests as a “poet of the rural” to speak for farmers. This makes him the role model of an “organic intellectual.” During the protests, Wu Sheng keeps writing poems and essays, while his involvement and experiences of being a social activist reinforces his creativity. Furthermore, this related to his perspective on literature, inter-influential on his work and social practice, which marks him out in contemporary Taiwanese literature. |
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