Locality, History and Style in Gan Yao-Ming’s Ghost Slayer

• Main Authors: Hsiu-Jen Chen, 陳秀珍
• Other Authors: Yu-lin Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71691183333998725760

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學與跨國文化研究所 === 103 === 　　This dissertation is trying to study the locality, history and style in Gan Yao-Ming’s Ghost Slayer. Gan’s literary outputs remove traditional constraints, and are totally different from the traditional local literatures which emphasize grief and sorrow, as well as abandon all heavy missions, to create the brand all new writing field of the local novel lightly. The point of this dissertation is discussing how Gan uses the magic of language to describe the locality and how he reappears the heavy history in his pen, furthermore, how he creates his own particular essay style in novel to express esthetics. Ghost Slayer follows the line of grand history, depicts in various and intersected ways to exhibit overlapped phenomenon. Firstly, we’ll discuss local imaginations in this novel. Native place is named GuanNiuWo, just the hometown of Gan, a Hakka village. Since this, we can tell that the locality of the novel is also Hakka locality. This novel apply the different aspects of Native Hakka language to invest the Hakka manner, method and emotion. The author blended local and Hakka language together and express the finest of Taiwaneses. Secondly, we analyze the field of history in Ghost Slayer to emphasize the concept of localization through Ghost King and local legend, train and intermixing identification in colonial history to discover the ethnic code in Hakka angle. And further, we’ll probe into the esthetic genre from Gan’s complicated language character and the writing technique as well as temple. Finally, we’ll explore story telling skill and style. Gan makes readers feel postponed atmosphere, as his poetic words premeat unique presentation of realiy. Like a magician, he has created a fantastic epic of history with profound concern and deeply care about the local.