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Title |
Modernization and Citizenship──Medication Issues in Shou Kin-Ha's Short Story “Trench Ulcer” |
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Author |
Mo, Su-Wei |
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Lecturer, China Institute of Technology |
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Abstract |
This article is intending to reveal the three connecting factors, i.e., modernization, citizenship and state power in Shou Kin Ha's novel “Trench Ulcer”, which constantly existed in his series of works, through re-examining the colonial consciousness and strategies in the era. Evidenced by the fact that an intern citizenship, including the doctor/author himself, was accidentally created by the colonial authority in the process of modernization frequently contemplated by the writer in his work, the colonial literature, including the so-called Komin Literature, is therefore arguably to pertain the character incorporates a mutation derived from the subjective consciousness formulated in the process of being ruled and assimilated. |
