英文摘要 |
From the 1920s to the 1930s, Taiwan under Japanese rule faced a whirlwind of modernization. Women in colonial Taiwan experienced the modern transformation of the 'ryōsaikenbo' (good wives and wise mothers) system, the influence of the first wave of feminism and the impact of capitalist economy. This paper aims to investigate how women writers in Fujin to katei (1919-1920) and Taiwan Fujinkai (1934-1939 ) responded to these transitions. 'The voice of the world' was a compelling call for modernity, one which lifted up women's self-consciousness, praised the imagined sisterhood, encouraged women to join in public spaces, and formed a universal paradigm for civilized modern women. However, this 'universalizing' process was founded on the gaze upon subaltern women and the elimination of differences. With Susan Stanford Friedman's concept of 'geography of identity,' I will examine the dialectical encounters between different female subjects in women's literary writings in the two magazines. In Kitano Satoko, Ōno Shizuko, Huang Pao-tao and other women's works, the voice of the world brought about belief in enlightenment and the imagination of liberty, but this liberalist ideology also intensified the division between the majority and minority. This contrast manifests the double sides of emancipation and exploitation of modernity in colonial Taiwan. |