| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 98 === This paper juxtaposes the family writing in Taiwan and Manchukuo from the time when the Pacific wars started to the defeat of Japan (1941~1945), analyzing the ideas and the discourses in the texts of Japanese, Han Chinese, and female intellectuals. The axis of the paper can be divided into two aspects. On one hand, this paper tries to analyze the historical background of family writing, revealing how the Imperial Japan transplanted its concepts of similar consanguinity into Han Chinese''s patrilineal family beliefs via the operation of the state apparatus and thus simplified the members of local families into parts of their Co-Prosperity establishment. On the other hand, this paper analyzes the text to investigate how these writers establish their own statements via the topic of family and further raises the similarities and dissimilarities of the moral lessons in the novels of these two regions.
If putting family writing under the historical frame of Imperial Japan, the relationship between an individual, a family and a country would thus show up. Furthermore, it is possible to investigate each writer morals and the ideology represented in their texts. The Japanese writers take the family writing as a strategy that wraps up the boon from the empire, and within this frame, the writers can build up the viewpoints of dualities between the empire and the local families, modern society and feudalism, civilization and uncivilized society and thus reconstruct a modern empire space that is full of "hope." Though Japanese writers had both historical and ideological interpretation right, the Han Chinese writers could found their shelter from the local culture revitalization policy by Taisei Yokusankai (Imperial Rule Assistance Association) and expressed the characteristics of Han Chinese people and the ideology of resistance as a response to the empire discourse. The Han Chinese intellectuals, on one hand, had to face the modernization, new ideas and alien culture imported by imperial Japan that caused the decomposition and dilution of Han people''s culture and family tradition. They, on the other hand, fell into the mud of confusion of overlapping concepts of modernization and Japanization caused by the imperial colonial modernity. Besides, the insights expressed by female families are not only a challenge to the existing male experience and male knowledge supremacy. Female writers merged their life experience and the backgrounds into the family writings to show their presence in the history and their discourse subject.
From the analysis of the family writings, it is possible to see the situation of an individual under national policies and feudal family in the text. What lies among an individual and the family, among an individual and the people, among an individual and the country and even among individuals reveals a multidirectional construction and suppressing system. It is possible to see the evolution process of the empire discourse in Taiwan and in Manchukuo and the empire discourse or conversation/ argument with the empire via the concepts shown by the family writings. To sum up, family writing recovered the plural sights under the frame of the “Great East Asian” art.
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