| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 台灣文化及語言文學研究所在職進修碩士班 === 98 === About 80 percent of the world's population had been under the domination of colonialism and imperialism . Until now in the 21st century, they are still living in the shadow of colonialism and can’t escape from this nightmare. Even the colonial era had come and gone, some islands on the edge of empires still can’t establish their own independent nations, and can’t be recognized by the international society. Hong Kong and Taiwan are the two best postcolonial examples. These two societies are also situated on the margins of the British, Chinese, and Japanese empires, and their marginal positions are also objects of analysis in this study.
Shi Shuqing is winner of the National Award for Arts 2008. She is the first female winner of this award for the past 12 years. With her own experience of living on the two islands of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and her full ability to master fictional narratives texts out of real historical events, she attempts to construct postcolonial images for both islands under the colonial rules.
This paper analyses five pieces of her works: the complete works of Hong Kong Trilogy and the first two works from Taiwan Trilogy—Passing Through Lo-Jin and Dust in the Wind. I seek to discuss her thoughts toward postcolonial discourse and to examine how she deconstructs, overthrows and rewrites disciplines and canons which are established under male patriarchal domination. I also examine the ways she releases the subaltern’s long-oppressed voice in order to expose the ambiguous and confused self-identitiy problems and desires from deep unconsciousness.
This paper explores events in the novels by placing them under political, social, cultural and historial situations of their own time, and also attempts to find out why is it that the subaltern underclass and women cannot speak for their own? Under the domination of cultural hegemony, how do these subaltern underclass and women on the edges of empires respond to their own feelings and situations, under the circumstances that they have to deal with both physical and mental trauma and self-alienation?
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