“Contemporary Japan” in Taiwanese Fiction after the lifting of Martial Law

• Main Authors: Hsu, Wei, 徐緯
• Other Authors: Fan, Ming-Ju
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ke9j5p

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 107 === Japanese popular culture has become pervasive in Taiwan and the discourse of Taiwan’s subjectivity has gradually been constructed since the lifting of Taiwan Martial Law. In this context, this study sets foot on the dual meaning of the imagination of contemporary Japan after the lifting of martial law: an ideal type of modernization and a referential object for developing Taiwanese consciousness. Specifically, this study discusses the symbol of material and the representation of space in the fiction to analyze the imagination and narrative meaning of contemporary Japan. Using the fictions by Chu Tien-Wen as an example, this study first discusses how the meaning of the material symbol in her fiction shifted from the representation of historical memories to the consuming image after the lifting of Martial Law in the 1980s. Next, through the fictions by Chu Tien-Hsin, Sun Tzu-Ping, and Chang Wei-Chung, this study discusses how the representation of contemporary Japan has been determined by the various context of imagination and the demand for specific fiction genre. Lastly, through the fictions by Wu Ji-Wen, Lia Hsiang-Yin, and Wu Ming-Yi, we see the imagination of contemporary Japan in the fictions is connected to the Taiwan consciousness formed in 1980’s as well as reflecting the tendency of the destruction of specific ideologies featured in Taiwanese fiction after the lifting of Martial Law. In addition, the representation of contemporary Japan in the fiction shows the changing social context and the trajectory of Taiwanese fiction, which makes the fiction differ from other genres such as film or prose.