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Title |
The Hidden Seventies: The "Baodiao Movement Narrative" in Kuo Songfen's Late Works |
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Author |
Yang, Chieh |
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Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Taiwan University |
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Abstract |
This essay uses fiction, manuscripts and annotations to explore the "Baodiao Movement Narrative" in Kuo Songfen’s late works. In Kuo's late writings, the intertextual reference of writings of Lu Xun, a Spiritual Teacher with Both Political and Literary Exemplary Meanings, becomes an important interface for Kuo to negotiate with his own movement experience. "Moon Seal" and "Snowblind", as well as Kuo's annotations and reading notes on his re-reading of Lu Xun in the 1980s and 1990s, testify to his detour from Lu Xun and indirect dialogue with the Baodiao movement. In Kuo's late novels, the politically relevant 1970s are always hidden. This period of disappearance is measured in terms of ten or seventeen years, revealing the novelist’s trauma symptom through its fractures and shortages. This essay argues that Kuo's concern of the early postwar period, mediated by the left wing, embeds the implicit historical structure of the 1970s under the explicit historical framework of the February 28th Incident. The loss of aesthetic technique in Kuo's unpublished novel "Ice Silkworm" reveals the unfinished state of his ideological purge of the Baodiao movement. This manuscript was sealed, indicating Kuo's attempt to "Farewell to Baodiao movement". The 1970s have been hidden from view in his fiction ever since. Then, Kuo made a breakthrough in his introspection of history and developed an ambiguous and poetic narrative voice. |
