跨世代的主體性追求: 楊小娜《綠島》之中的抗拒與共謀

Abstract

本論文旨在探討楊小娜《綠島》之中如何再現殖民主義在台灣交織的軌跡，並主張台灣身分的變動性以及在抵抗與屈從殖民政權之間台灣主體意識的浮現。論文第二章探討台灣殖民經驗與海外留學生之間的相互關係，亦分析兩代台灣留學生在日本和美國的留學經驗之中，日治時期自治主義路線以及美國1960年代學生運動如何影響海外留學生抵抗台灣殖民政權以及留學經驗對於自由民主的想像。第三章藉由探討家的政治性，審視殖民政權如何透過對家的控制重構社會秩序以及殖民意識形態。此章節同時探討台灣女性如何透過打破歷史沉默、書寫家族歷史作為抵抗殖民霸權，重構台灣女性的主體性。最後一章總結本論文並強調楊小娜《綠島》不僅再現跨世代對於主體性的追求，並促使讀者重新審視後解嚴、後殖時代的另類敘事以及人權與轉型正義的當代關懷。

This thesis investigates representations of trans-generational struggles and quests of the Taiwanese for identity and subjectivity in Shawna Yang Ryan’s novel Green Island. By proposing that the contemporary issues of Taiwan such as nomenclature, national identity and subjectivity should be read beyond polarized political debates about the PRC and the ROC, the thesis emphasizes the need to reexamine how trajectories of colonialism intertwined in Taiwan complicate the formation of Taiwan-centered consciousness. Taking Shawna Yang Ryan’s novel Green Island as a main literary text, the thesis argues that Taiwanese identity is not fixed and stable but has been dynamically redefined, as Taiwan-centered subjectivity has been emerging along with everyday struggles and choices between resistance and complicity under different forms of colonial rule in Taiwan. Chapter Two draws attention to the relation between Taiwanese colonial experiences and Taiwanese overseas experiences. With a specific emphasis on movements for Taiwan’s self-rule under Japanese rule and 1960s student movements in the United States, this chapter suggests that Taiwanese overseas study of two generations in Japan and the United States respectively influences their methods of resistance against the colonial powers in Taiwan and their imagination of freedom and democracy. Chapter Three extends the discussion to politics of homeplace to reexamine a hidden colonial control to restructure social order and colonial ideologies in Taiwanese homeplace. In this respect, this chapter delves into the discussion of a long history of silence so as to explore gendered resistance to break the silence and to reconstruct the subjectivity of the colonial Taiwanese women in the homeplace. The final chapter concludes with the major concern of this thesis: the importance of representing trans-generational struggles and quests for Taiwanese identity and subjectivity. In addition to emphasizing the importance of literary representations about the complexities of Taiwan’s colonial experiences, this concluding chapter also raises awareness of alternative narratives—once being silenced or erased—that have been passed down and voiced in public so as to reconsider how we can read beyond the novel’s end with regards to issues of human rights and transitional justice in post-Martial Law and postcolonial Taiwan.