记忆、创伤与殖民经验的再现 ――浅论吴浊流《亚细亚的孤儿》的被殖民书写

Abstract

Wu Zhuoliu’s autobiographical novel of Orphan of Asia, which is originally written in Japanese, completed in 1945, it is widely regarded as a classic of modern Asian literature and a groundbreaking expression of the postwar Taiwanese national consciousness. Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. Orphan of Asia offers a powerful depiction of the political, cultural, and psychological impact of colonialism. Taiwan has experienced Japanese colonial rule from 1895 through 1945, many factors of Japan’s colonial policy that brings its modernity to Taiwan. The Taiwanese identity crisis is regarded as a problem of mental trauma, and it also examines the structure of emotion in Colonial Taiwan. Therefore, the text of the Wu Zhuoliu, Orphan of Asia, is the symbol of the social history of modern Taiwan, from the colonial modernity and colonial experience, it is worthy of discussing to find the implication of the novel.