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- Title
施叔青《風前塵埃》中的另類歷史想像.
- Authors
劉亮雅
- Abstract
Historical memory fiction has flourished ever since the lifting of martial law in Taiwan. Some of these fictions excavate multi-ethnic, transnational experiences in relation to colonialisms, exploring ethnic experiences beyond stereotypes and debunking monolithic national imagination, thereby opening up possibilities for an alternative historical imagination. This article deals with the alternative historical imagination in Shih Shu-ching's Dust before the Wind, with a special focus on its representation of issues that had rarely been dealt with before in Taiwanese literature, such as the “enterprise of governing the savages,” the Taroko Battle, the ethnic relationships in Hualien under Japanese rule, Japanese immigrant villages, and postwar Japanese legacy. I argue that the novel presents an intricate re-vision of Japanese colonialism and Taiwan's postcoloniality by contrapuntally portraying three ethnic groups in eastern Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule and depicting post-war Japanese legacy, as well as by re-exploring the identity problems triggered by assimilation, imperialization, decolonization, and indigenization.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; DUST Before the Wind (Book); SHIH Shu-Ching; TAIWANESE fiction; TRANSNATIONALISM in literature; ETHNIC relations; JAPANESE occupation of Taiwan, 1895-1945; IMPERIALISM in literature; JAPANESE foreign relations; CHINESE literature; LITERARY criticism; JAPANESE history -- 1868-
- Publication
Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 2013, Vol 43, Issue 2, p311
- ISSN
0577-9170
- Publication type
Literary Criticism