英文摘要 |
Satou Haruo (1892-1964) was a leading writer who produced travel writings in Taiwan during the early 1920's. Due to his high literary reputation in Tokyo, these writings set an initial model of writing about Taiwan, and thus stirred the colonial imagination of Japanese writers of his generation. The itinerary of Satou's trip to Taiwan was arranged entirely by his friend, the anthropologist Mori Ushinosuke, who had worked at a natural museum in Taipei for years. Consequently, under Mori's guidance, Satou's travel experience in colonial Taiwan was inevitably tinged with the rich color of museology. Centered upon Satou's experience in Taiwan, this article examines how Satou's writings helped to form the Japanese imperial imagination of this island colony, which became a metaphor of coloniality and modernity in Japanese literature. |