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Title |
Taiwanese Scenery, Exoticism and Modernism─Focusing on You Syoku-syou’s Poetry and Poetics |
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Author |
Chen, Yun-Yuan |
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Ph.D Student, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi Univerisity |
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Abstract |
In pre-war period, text dissemination provides a legitimacy foundation of the existence of modernism literature in Taiwan, instead of arguing about whether the level of urbanization and capitalization is enough to produce modernism or not. In addition, I consider that local color of Taiwanese scenery and “gaiti” (foreign land)•colonial condition, are two important factors to produce Taiwan modernism literature in colonial period. This article focus on Surrealism poet You syoku-shou’s poetry and poetics, analysis the relationship among Taiwanese scenery, exoticism and modernism, and try to define the aesthetics of You’s Surrealism and its inner perspective. I find out that You’s poetry is a self-gaze and self-description by “South” image, which is between local color and exoticism. It is not only the internalization and extension of empire perspective, but also the effort of Taiwan “hōnto jin” (native Taiwanese) writers to find the unique and subjectivity of Taiwanese literature in Japanese empire literature context. The transformation of perspectives is inevitably ambiguous. |
