“Politics” in Modern Taiwanese Poetry

• Main Authors: Chen wen chen, 陳文成
• Other Authors: 陳鵬翔
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17796896383997723861

博士 === 佛光大學 === 文學系 === 98 === Literature and politics are indispensable, and to argue that literature is non-engage With political realities is itself a political stance. Political ecriture (poetry) is the main concern(s) of this dissertation which takes literary generation/ era as its distinctive divisions and several Taiwanese poets as sample target to dissect their political stance as embedded in their texts. This research asserts that in the domain of political ecriture, the texts examined are embodiments of the poets’s quest for subjectivity and literature cannot exempt itself from its social environment. In addition, the literary arena cannot likewise detach itself from the direct/ indirect influences of ideology and the overall social environment. The so-called pure quest for and implementation of art for art’s sake is just self-deception of unilateral wishful thinking. The text is highly inter-woven with its society. The power relationship often discloses the issues/ subject matter concerned. This can either be as huge as the manipulation of the state machine or as invisible as the awakening of the body/ subject, all of which are indexes for consideration in political writing. The research of this dissertation has discovered that there are four prominent characteristics lying underneath most modern Taiwanese political poetry, namely 1) texts of resistance by the opposition, 2) the narrative tendency in most political poems, 3) satire in the use of imagery, and 4) positiveness in romantic spirit. Implicit under the writing strategy of adopting art for life’s sake, and also under the guiding principles of administration/ governance there emerge the modern poets’ management of language and narration. And these techniques in turn reveal the trendy concerns and mapping of contemporary Taiwanese thinking. We also discover that the poets while writing never forget to forge/ trim and upgrade their skills/ efforts to the realm of artistic objects and aesthetics for appreciation.