| Summary: | 碩士 === 元智大學 === 中國語文學系 === 102 === Hou-Ying Dai criticizes humanism under the communist regime's order before the Cultural Revolution in 1966 and wins the name "Young Steel Canon" thanks to her trenchant criticism. After the Cultural Revolution it turns out that Dai witnesses the trauma by writing about it; she writes by contrasting the famine facts versus the empty slogans out of political propaganda, remonstrating the Class Struggle's destruction of rational order with depiction on the mental collapse and insanity, also traces the very root causes of the tragedy in order to awaken everyone's self-awareness, and furthermore pursue the possible ways to understanding and letting go.
For pursuing relief from the trauma, in her novel Dai replaces the conflict belief in class struggle with the return and recovery of humanism; and mends the cultural gap once grew severely by providing records of traditional cultural activities and folk songs and passes the cultural heritage on, aiming to return and revitalize the very origin of human mind. In her later years she has accomplished the trauma healing by unmatched dedicating to the intrinsic exploration with religion research and to the ultimate concern on life and death.
Her dramatic change in role from attacking humanism to advocating humanism and the inevitable controversy makes Day’s reflection on trauma demonstrate not only a bare accusation but also an unquenchable desire of reshaping her identity with confession on her moral culpability and the redemption. She tries to suffice the understated and neglected texts under the macroscopic historic view by insisting on her creation ideal of evidencing history with literature work; further she advocates and encourages the public intellectuals to reaffirm the self-identity and values by focusing on addressing the risk of long range aphasia or speechlessness resulted from the political control or censorship.
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