當王德威遇上原住民──試論王德威後遺民論述

When David Der-Wei Wang meets the Aborigines: on David Der-Wei Wang’s Post-Loyalist Discourse

2004年，王德威發表〈後遺民寫作〉，以近年台灣文學研究主要議題「移民及殖民經驗」為標的，重探遺民意識在當前台灣文學研究的重要性，同時以一種防衛兼之敵意的姿態指向「台灣意識」與「本土論述」。本文試圖從「當王德威遇上原住民」的視角切入，藉由爬梳王德威在〈後遺民寫作〉以及〈拾骨者舞鶴〉（2000）、《臺灣：從文學看歷史》（2005）等論述中詮釋原住民議題與作品時所展現的中國／漢人觀點，審視後遺民論述的缺陷與盲點。當後遺民論述一心凝視中國原鄉、忽略了包括原住民族在內的諸多台灣歷史脈絡之際，後遺民論述正是王德威所漠視的「殖民情境」之下應該好好研究的後殖民議題。

In 2004, David Der-Wei Wang published his Post-LoyalistWriting, whose focus is on “the experience of migration andcolonization,” one major issue of recent Taiwan literatureresearch. This article re-explores the importance of post-loyalistconsciousness in current Taiwan literature research, and in themeanwhile this article assumes a defensive and hostile posturetoward “Taiwanese Consciousness” and “Taiwan Local Discourse.”In Post-loyalist Writing, Wuhe the bone collector, on Wuhe's fiction,and Taiwan: A History through Literature, Wang displays a China/Han ethnocentrism when his interprets aboriginal issues and works.To examine flaws and blind spots of the post-loyalist discourse,this paper probes in the perspective of When Wang meets theaborigines. The post-loyalist discourse gazes at the “homeland”China, whereas it averts its eyes from the historical contexts ofTaiwan, including the aboriginal. In a paradoxical sense, the postloyalistdiscourse under the colonial context that Wang ignoresshould become a post-colonial issue of his concern.