| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 英美語文學研究所 === 100 ===
The present study aims at a deconstructive but not apolitical reading of the leftist writer, Ying-Zhen Chen’s (pro-unificationist) leftist discourse presented in his debate in Unitus with another literary figure in Taiwan, Fang-Ming Chen, whose attempt is to build up a literary historiography based on an innovative periodization of Taiwan’s colonial experience. In the following discussion, I will probe into Ying-Zhen Chen’s narrative from three aspects— Marxist theory, personal experience and humanist concern— in respective chapters. In the first chapter of this thesis I dig into the meaning of the key term “social formation” as the backbone of Ying-Zhen Chen’s theory and challenge the scientificity he claims to be attaching to it by comparing its usages in different contexts and theoretical strategies. In the second chapter, the idea of “Chinese in Taiwan” that forms a solid structure in Ying-Zhen Chen’s discourse is investigated. While questioning the validity of his narrative brought by his experiences and political consistency, I argue that Ying-Zhen Chen’s Chinese identity and political steadfastness need to be examined by his participation in Chinese society as a whole. In the third chapter I try to indicate the repressive side of Ying-Zhen Chen’s humanist concern, especially when it is married with state power. Also, I point out the danger of mixing universal and comparative values without differences in a discourse that is claimed to be leftist.
Through the first and the second chapter I would like to indicate a reciprocal causation in Ying-Zhen Chen’s leftist narrative consists of generalized method and personal experiences at the same time, while the two approaches are in nature conflicting. By adding the third chapter as a contrast to the previous two chapters I wish to point out the conditioned relationship between the idealist and political respects in Ying-Zhen Chen’s discourse. Hopefully this study will shed some lights on future analyses of nationalist Marxist theoretical models of any kind, especially those in my own political context.
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