| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 台灣文化研究所 === 98 === This thesis mainly focuses on the Zhang Gui-xing's works of the Borneo rainforest. It explores the writer's purpose to delineate the characteristics of the rainforest, by means of identifying the theme and typical characters and dismantling the symbolic significance of the rainforest. This thesis is organized into six chapters: the first chapter is attributed to the introduction of the definition of this study, the interpretation of the terms and the definition of the scope of this study. It also categorizes the related work through the literature study.
Chapter II provides the context of the works written by Malaysian writers in Taiwan, with the tropical rainforests as the main writing field. It explores the difference and similarities in presenting the rainforests in their works, through the analyses of scenes of the rainforest/bakelite forest in the works of Li Yung-ping and Huang Chin-shu. From the diaspora perspective in interpreting the works of the Malaysian writers in Taiwan, this chapter summarizes their common narratives and through searching the differences in these common narratives it lays the foundation for the analyses of Zhang Gui-xing's works of the rainforest.
The third chapter summarizes the three main themes in Zhang Gui-xing's works of the rainforest: 'Change of the homeland', 'Displacement of the native soil' and 'Charms of the siren song'. As a third-generation immigrant, instead of stacking the pleasant memories of his home town in Southeast Asia, Zhang Gui-xing digs up the ugly and gloomy stories of the past, giving the rainforest a symbolic significance. On the other hand, although Zhang Gui-xing focuses on depicting the Borneo rainforest, he interspersed many Chinese elements throughout the descriptions of the rainforest, which forms a dialectical relationship between the rainforest and the Chinese identity. Furthermore, Zhang Gui-xing uses the seductresses of Sirens from the Greek mythology as a symbol to imply the struggling desire in human nature, and the lingering decadent music directly reflects the image of the native soils in the author's mind.
The fourth chapter is attributed to the establishment of Zhang Gui-xing's purpose of writing about the rainforest, from the analyses of his creations of typical characters in the text. The male characters who are corruptive and immoral are recognized as guinea pigs for the test of humanity, while the incomplete and deformed female characters, regarded as the victims, stresses the aggressive nature of the fatherhood. From the repeatability of these characters, the author's intention of making establishment of the rainforest becomes clear.
Chapter V, 'Rainforest space management', explores the symbolic meaning of the rain forest, by means of observing Zhang Gui-xing's creation of the rainforest space from the concept of semiotics, and analyzing the coded rainforest space from the images produced by text stacking. In addition, the presentation of the beauty of the rainforest gains him the reputation as a great writer in literature on the rainforest.
The sixth chapter draws conclusions from systematically listing the features and connotations in Zhang Gui-xing's depiction of the rainforest. This chapter also attempts to provide a fair status for Zhang Gui-xing's works of the rain forest, among the works of Malaysian writers in Taiwan.
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