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The Words and Politics of the Local Custom: Yi Chi’s and Haruyama Yukio’s Local Custom Writings on “Manchukuo”

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2013, (32), pp.259-278
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2013..32.010
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : June 30, 2013

蔡佩均 1

1台灣國立成功大學台灣文學研究所

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ABSTRACT

“Manchukuo,” a political entity attached to Japan in the 1930s. This paper indicates that under colonialism, the most obvious feature in the literary field of “Manchukuo” would be the topics and change of styles generated by the custom discourse. Due to the stimulation and inspiration of the custom discourse, we could see the influence of the custom discourse on the cultural production such as the literary creation.No matter the topics are centered on ecological environments like nature, climate, and geography, or it is a novelwith the custom as its background, the influence is evidently visible. This paper will focus on the “Manchukuo” writer Yi Chi’s and the Japanese poet Haruyama Yukio’s local custom writings, exploring the following issues: How do the writers’ national identities and the nature of the politics and society they are in influence their perception and representation of local custom? Through what basic issues and literary constructions do these custom narratives represent the ecological and human resources? How does the custom in these two writers’ works become a symbolic signifier, carrying the desires of the empire, or that of the anti-empire, or the writers’ response and criticism of the planning economic development discourse in the empire?

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