A Study of Husluman Vara's Tribe Writing
| Autor: | Kao Hsuan Ching, 高旋淨 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 102 On the island of Taiwan, a number of different racial groups live alongside each other, in order to pass down their culture and hold together a communal tribal consciousness, indigenous people employ writing as a tool for constructing a common tribal identity. In the process of creating such an identity, they face constant dilemma: accepting and acquiring compulsory education enables them to move up in social ladder, but at the same time they are aweare of the fact that government-controlled education in reality leads to the distinction of their cultural heritage as a tribe. With this in mind, Varar works to reconstruct the living images of Bunun people, by writing down his own tribal culture to rediscover the forgotten tribal memory lost in colonization, and pass down the origins of Bunun culture along with its essence, while at the same time using the platform constructed by words, Vara breaks down the tribal boundaries allowing each tribe to enter into the deep cultural world of Bunun people, and letting the world to see the various cultural images of the tribes. This article studies the tribal writing in Vara's novels, examining his wrtitings from the perspectives of hereditary tribe names, origin myth and religious rituals to discuss how Vara brings his imaginary Bunun people into shape and how he uses language, images and narratives to integrate tribal conscioussness into texts and the resulting Bunun history and culture; to show the independent logic of his use of the tribe language and how does it interact with Chinese to create an unique langauge system. |
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