Writing Mountains of Taiwan in Kano Tadao’s With Mountains, Cloud and Aborigines

• Main Authors: Chun-Ming Yu, 余峻銘
• Other Authors: Chia-Li Kao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97214238261456420563

碩士 === 中興大學 === 台灣文學與跨國文化研究所 === 103 === The way of mountaineering fieldwork in Taiwan changed from academic investigation to leisure-time hiking in the second half of Japanese colonial period. Due to the author’s unique writing style, Kano Tadao’s With Mountains, Cloud and Aborigines is meaningful for both academic investigation of mountains and understanding of Japanese colonial history. By examining Kano’s writing of mountains of colonial Taiwan, this thesis inquires his literary characteristics and unstable colonial consciousness in his cooperation. This thesis focuses on the discussion of Kano’s unstable colonial roles, affective calling and writing of aborigines. The first part of the essay is about the relationship between colonial policy and mountain climbing. Tadao Kano’s double identities are mountain admirer and colonial cooperator. The second part of it is about the affective calling between “nature” and “self” when Tadao Kano does his fieldwork in the mountains. The last part of it is about the depiction of aborigines through the views of mountain climbing, nature admiring and academic investigation. With the three different points of views, Tadao Kano’s mountain writing consists of literary and academic contribution and the colonial consciousness behind it. The content of the book reveals and enriches the varieties of Taiwan literature during the Japanese colonial period.