英文摘要 |
In recent years, scholars in Taiwan and the United States have forgednew ways of understanding and developing academic approaches to the studyof modernism. This recent research has revealed that understanding postwarTaiwanese modernism requires knowledge not only of pre-early twentiethcentury modernist literature in the West, but also must take into accountthe Cold War Era modernism as a whole. Only in this way does it becomepossible to clearly observe the “return” of Taiwanese modernism after the war.Consequently, while based on this recent research on modernism, the presentarticle focuses on a question that has received scant attention: that is, whatfactors led to modernism’s rise to prominence in Cold War literary and artisticcircles? In approaching this question, this article concentrates the early periodof the modernist movements arising in the Cold War era. This article attemptsto provide a framework for answering this question, by placing modernisminto the geo-political structure of the Cold War, and extending this range ofobservation from the United States and Taiwan to include China. Furthermore,this article explores how the two opposing “camps” of the Cold War stimulatedand gave rise to the modernism movements in Taiwan and China. Therefore,this study attempts to clarify the following questions: What sorts of ideologiesand political atmosphere did the Cold War form? How did Taiwanese and Chinese writers under different political regimes understand modernism? Whatsorts of cultural imaginings of modernism led to its rise to prominence onboth sides of the Taiwan Strait? What sorts of new literary breakthroughs didthis imagining of modernism bring about? |