Sowing the Seeds of Culture－Ahronglong Sakinu`s Childhood Writing

• Main Authors: Shu Ching Teng, 鄧書青
• Other Authors: 黃雅淳
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44689318407160070252

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 102 === Aboriginal writers would like to revive their culture by aboriginal writing. Ahronglong Sakinu, one of aboriginal writers, who is good at witting, describes his memory by transferring oppressive ethnic group issue into gentle memory of childhood with his humorous brush strokes. This study would like to investigate Sakinu’s childhood writing in his works and analyze the concealed meaning, and comprehend how to sow the seeds of culture by childhood writing. This study has divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction, which contains the research background and motivation, research subjects and objectives, research scope and restriction, research methodology and steps, and investigation of literary works. Chapter 2 introduces Sakinu’s life and his works. Chapter 3 and 4 research the imagery of the mountain and his father, the ocean and grandfather in Sakinu’s childhood. What meaning and valve does it present to culture inheritance? Chapter 5 analyzes the meaning and the strategies of language expression of Sakinu’s childhood writing. It defines the position of Sakinu’s works in aboriginal culture inheritance. Chapter 6 has summarized the research results of this study. There are four conclusions in this study. I. Ahronglong Sakinu created a unique style of writing. II. Sakinu regards the childhood memory of mountain and father as the carriage of nature philosophy. III. Sakinu regards the childhood memory of ocean and grandfather as the inheritance of orally transmitted culture. IV. Sakinu regards the literature as the media of cultural memory storage. He used "pure" and "lightness" of childhood memories to write the history of ethnic groups. He is Sowing the seeds of culture, and the seeds will eventually form a sweet fruit.