從後移民看華文書寫:以北美地區華人學者史書美與華人作家嚴歌苓、張翎爲中心

Abstract

As an emerging research method, the proposed of “Sinophone literature” has aroused controversy from the beginning. As advocate of Sinophone literature, Professor. Shu-Mei Shih tries to criticize “Sinocentrism”, “Chineseness” and “Territorialism” by applying the Post-colonialism and Ethnic Minority Literature on the “Sinophone literature”. Professor David Der-wei Wang regarded “Sinophone literature” as a field and a method. The dialogue between Sinophone literature and Chinese literature could communicate with each other through this method and develop a cross-national geographical map of literature in the new era. The “Loyalism” (the immigrant, the loyalist and the foreigner) proposed by Professor David Wang could be identified as three different political identities, and especially the “loyalist” is strongly indicating a political meaning. In this paper, it is proposed that there would be “loyalist consciousness” which derived from Professor David Wang’s “Loyalism”, and become the immigrant consciousness, loyalist consciousness and foreigner consciousness. These three kinds of consciousness are in a trinity with the relationship of immigrants. Nowadays, because of the convenient transportation and economic development, immigrants enter to the post-immigration era, and the “post-loyalist consciousness” is born. This paper tries to elaborate the “Loyalist consciousness” and “Post-loyalist consciousness” with Professor David Wang’s “Loyalism” and how these kinds of consciousness are related to the identity and how they shown in North America Chinese (including the writers and scholars). There are a few decades history of Chinese language literature in North America, and because of the limited of space, this paper only select a specific time period and specific author as the analysis objects to explore the meaning of “Loyalist consciousness” and “Post-loyalist consciousness” in North American immigrants in Chinese language Literature and research.