英文摘要 |
This paper focuses on the issues of time and ethics in Wu He's acclaimed novel Remains of life. Wu He is known for his idiosyncratic writing. This novel, with its unique style, portrays the Wushe Incident that occurred in 1930. The narrator as one of the protagonist returns to Chuangchungdao, the resettled place of the related aborigines after the Incident, to trace its history by revisiting the landscape and investigating individuals who are associated with the Incident. The author regards this investigation as 'historical research of the present.' However, such historical research neither intends to recover the repressed historical memoires nor seeks historical 'truth'; rather, it casts rethinking of the Incident, an ethical event that operates in a complex temporal structure of 'simultaneity,' as the author understands it. Thus this paper attempts to analyze how the author understands the Wushe Incident and how power-relations have been stratified in the both the landscape and historical discourse concerning the Incident. Also, this paper explicates how the author's unique presentation of the Incident has actually reshaped the conception of history and introduced an ethics through his peculiar use of language. |