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Title |
The Dilemma of Speaking and the Redundant of Home/State: Hu Shu-wen’s White-Terror Writing and Political Criticism |
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Author |
Li, Shu-Chun |
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Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Gender Studies, Kaohsiung Medical University |
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Abstract |
This article discusses Hu Shu-wen’s White-Terror writing. The discussion is divided into three parts: Firsts, Hu Shu-wen’s White-Terror writing criticizes the system of authoritarian. Secondly, she points out the speaking dilemma of the survivors. Thirdly, the survivors become the redundant of home/country. In the first section, I analyze the state system and its cooperators. In the second section, I discuss the dilemma of speaking because of the trauma. In the third part, I discuss political mental patients; political nomads and political orphans become “the redundant” of families/countries, excluded by politics, society and family. In conclusion, political prisoners become “surplus” because they do not conform to the sovereign order and borders on the country. Some survivors with mental illness were wandering away from home, some dying on the streets outside the “home”. Political orphans were abandoned by society and become “redundant” because of political disasters. |
