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Multiple Structures of Orientalism and Self-Orientalism: On Exoticism in Works on Taiwan during Japanese Colonial Period

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2014, (36), pp.215-240
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2014..36.010
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : October 31, 2014

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

This paper first explores Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism and ArifDirlik, James L.Clifford, and other scholars’ further theorization on this topic to introduce the definition of Orientalism and Self-Orientalism. Second, because the orientalism in Taiwan is in fact extended and mutated from Japanese Orientalism, this paper will illustrate how native Japanese writers or Japanese writers temporarily staying in Taiwan during 1900s-1920s produce novels on Nanban (Southern barbarians), exoticism in the south, and Taiwan colony by imitating orientalist point of view. Third, this paper discusses the differences in the representation of Taiwan by works written by Japanese writers settling in Taiwan and “Wansei” writers and local Taiwanese writers or Japanese writers staying in Taiwan for a short period of time. This paper also pinpoints why Taiwanese writers fight against these Japanese writers in terms of the competition between “foreign literature” and “Taiwan literature,” and how the orientalist point of view in these works affects Taiwanese writers. Finally, focusing on exoticism in works on Taiwan during Japanese Colonial Period, this paper demonstrates the complicated phenomena in the creation and research of Taiwan literature caused by orientalism and self-orientalism.

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