Postcolonial Re-membering in Twenty-First-Century Taiwanese Fiction
Liou, Liang-Ya
- PublishedJuly, 2026
- Binding平裝 / 21*14.8 / 332pages / 單色（黑） / 中文
- Publisher國立臺灣大學出版中心
- SeriesHumanities and Social Sciences Series 30
- ISBN978-626-7944-06-6
- GPN1011500682
- Price NT$480
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In twenty-first-century Taiwan, postcolonial re-membering has emerged as a dominant literary phenomenon, with many Taiwanese writers of different ethnicities, genders, and generations revisiting and re-imagining Taiwan’s colonial past, writing back to official histories of Taiwan across the Dutch, the Zheng, the Qing, the Japanese, and the Kuomintang eras. This book argues that postcolonial re-membering highlights Taiwan’s encounters and conflicts with the world as well as reverberations of world influences in the last four hundred years, which resulted in its vibrant, hybridized culture, and that postcolonial re-membering signifies collective efforts to reconstruct national identity and a Taiwan-centric historical perspective.
Drawing on Foucault, Said, Shitao Ye, and Ping-hui Liao, the introduction theorizes and contextualizes postcolonial re-membering in twenty-first-century Taiwanese fiction. The six chapters focus on postcolonial re-membering in the fictions by major authors Badai, Gan Yao-ming, Chung Wen-yin, Lai Hsiang-yin, and Hu Shu-wen, while also discussing its intersection with issues of gender, ethnicity, class, environmental concern, and sexuality. Badai reclaims indigenous agency and reverses colonial narratives of “civilization vs. barbarity” by depicting Pinuyumayan’s anti-colonial and decolonizing strategies during the Dutch and Japanese periods respectively. Gan Yao-ming deals with the traumas of transnational mixed raced children born out of wedlock and environmental issues during the 1970s in relation to the Cold War. Chung Wen-yin portrays discrimination against migrants from South Taiwan in 1980s Taipei due to imposed Mandarin hegemony. Lai Hsiang-yin depicts the impact of the Dangwai movement during the White Terror, the formation of civic-based Taiwanese identity, and the political apathy of mainstream society. Hu Shu-wen connects sexual/gender trauma and national trauma, criticizing the depoliticized character imposed by authoritarian rule and its aftermath for hampering transitional justice. The conclusion discusses how postcolonial re-memory enables new cultural imagination.
導論：後殖民歷史重構
第一部分 重建荷治與日治時期
第一章 原住民說話：巴代《笛鸛》與《白鹿之愛》中的歷史重構
第二部分 重構1970、1980年代
第二章 傳奇與謎團：甘耀明的《邦查女孩》中的歷史重構
第三章 台北夢與北遷移民：鍾文音《在河左岸》中的族群、性別與世代
第三部分 重返白色恐怖與民主運動、社會運動
第四章 重返白色恐怖：賴香吟〈清治先生〉中的記憶與認同
第五章 野百合世代的時代圖像：賴香吟三篇小說中的運動與日常
第六章 召喚情感記憶：胡淑雯《太陽的血是黑的》中的國族創傷與性別創傷
結論：重新記憶與新文化想像
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