| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 96 === Taiwan has been facing unprecedented tremendous changes since the lift of martial law in 1987, but so far debates on these transformations mostly address political or social science-related issues, comparatively less often involving discourses of humanities, such as language and literature. As a result this research centers on “A Supplementary History of My Homeland”, Tan Lui’s 300,000-word Tai-gi saga, which pioneers in staging a Siraya-based re-interpretation of Taiwan’s experiences as a colony in the past four centuries and lies ahead a new horizon to re-envision Taiwan’s future as a multi-ethnic nation state from an Austronecian-oriented standing point, a perspective different from those of mainstream China-centered, Han-cored historic and cultural accounts.
The thesis defines “A Supplementary History of My Homeland” as a work with strong decolonizing politics and a role model of wielding the pen as the sword to fight for Taiwan’s nation-building movement. With two interwoven spheres, de-Sinocization and de-Han, discussion in this thesis covers three parts: a Siraya-based re-construction of Taiwan’s history and nationalism, a re-presentation of Sirayan femininity and motherliness as bedrock for Taiwan-featured feminism and a path to a dialogue between women and nation, and finally an invention of anti-colonial transcendentalism by creating Siraya-Paiwan-linked mythology about Taiwanese ancestry.
The work also demonstrates that through creative writing in Tai-gi, Taiwan’s most widely-spoken native tongue that, though, has been stigmatized by Chinese colonial regimes, Tan Lui takes action in resisting the colonizers’ brainwash and re-acclaiming the beauty of this repressed language and the culture it embodies. Corresponding to his anti-colonial efforts through the pen, the thesis dedicates itself to Romanized Tai-gi, a despised orthography, as actualization of decolonizing the mind and revitalizing Taiwanese values.
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