Becoming-Realism: The Production of Taiwan Fiction

• Main Authors: Li-HsuanChang, 張俐璇
• Other Authors: Chang-Ming Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13744596169720887576

博士 === 國立成功大學 === 台灣文學系 === 102 === Observed from the previous research, the evaluation on Realism and Modernism was fluctuating from The History of Taiwanese Literature (1987) to Taiwanese New Literary History (2011), and the dominant discussion on literary Realism usually referred to that of the 1930s and 1970s. Different from the two perspectives addressed above, this dissertation concentrates on the construction of 'Realism' in each historical stage. It tries to problematize and historicize 'Realism' by analyzing the production of Taiwanese fictions from the ideologies of Colonialism, Nationalism, Liberalism and Socialism. The development of 'Realism' in Taiwan has diverse meanings, constructive processes and expressions. Under Japanese colonial rule, the development of fictions was separately influenced by different narrative styles and languages of 'Realism' from China, where it was emerged from the so-called May Forth Movement; Taiwan, where it was influenced by the notions of 'Native-Soil'; and Japan, where the realistic concepts combined with the Soviet Union. During the period of intensive wartime, Taiwan fiction was dubbed the name of 'feces realism' because it against Japan’s national policy and Japanese aesthetic tradition. In other words, it was difficult to support colonial assimilation policy. After World War II, the dominant culture in Taiwan was deeply influenced by ROC’s policy on literature and art of the wartime. There were numerous novels, which were categorized ' Healthy Realism', were then produced. Shortly later, 'Realism' reformed from 'Healthy Realism' to 'Psychological Realism' by Liberalists under the USAID literary system. In addition, KMT-US co-constructed the aesthetics of Taiwan modernist fictions, of which the Introversive Realistic Fiction could be regarded as the representative one. Last but not least, I analyze how the 'Realism', which involved left-wing ideology, and the 'Anti-Realism' formed the production of Native-Soil Fiction, Political fiction, Urban Fiction, Postmodern Fiction and Neo-Native-Soil Fiction.