린하이인(林海音) 문학 속 고향의식과 가정관 연구 – ≪在胡同裡長大≫와 ≪愛情的散步≫를 중심으로

Abstract

Lin Haiyin is one of the most influential writers in Taiwan in the 1950s to 1960s. She made a lot of contribution to the development of women’s literature in Taiwan and the cultural exchange between China and Taiwan. Lin Haiyin, who was born in Japan lived in Taiwan, the hometown of her parents in her childhood. After she had lived in Taiwan for a few years, she and her family left for China to escape from the Japanese colony at her father’s decision. She lived in Beijing for more than 20 years, and after Taiwan was liberated from Japanese ruling, she and her family returned to Taiwan. However, due to the political conflicts between Taiwan and China or the so-called “Cross-Strait relation”, she was unable to set her foot back in Beijing where she considered as her own hometown for a long time. Most of Lin Haiyin’s books are comprised of the author’s autobiographic novels, showing her own complex background of her youth and identity issue. Those characteristics are reflected in the books in a way that the main characters are portrayed to have confused identities being caught between China and Taiwan and as constantly longing and yearning for a return to Beijing. It also leads to an obsession with a stable space called ‘home’ and for a complete form of a family that is comprised of ‘father-mother-child’. This study focuses on the alienation from which Lin Haiyin felt like an outsider when she had to live in an acutely hard period under the Japanese colonial ruling and also on her longing for and desire to return to Beijing or the hometown of her mind as she could not go back to Beijing due to the worsened Chinese and Taiwanese relation. This study analyzes her view of home through her obsessive pursuit of an intact form of a complete family with all modern family members, and her own concept of ‘home’ which are reflected in her literature.