爭取日文讀者大眾：黃得時及「新銳中篇創作集」

The Making of a Japanese Reading Public: Huang Deshi and “Collection of New Wave Novellas”

本文以《臺灣新民報》學藝欄主編黃得時策劃的「新銳中篇創作集」（1939.7.6-1940.5.14）為中心，探究黃得時如何透過日文通俗小說尋求共鳴，爭取讀者大眾。本文通過「同盟通信社」的組織運作與報紙漢文欄廢止政策探討戰爭前後日台政治形勢的轉化與新聞統制措施，檢視時局影響下，主編黃得時的編輯策略。本文指出，通過該特輯的討論，有助我們釐清1930年代末期台灣日文讀者大眾的形成狀況，也能更進一步理解殖民地時期台灣文學的內涵及其文化意義的轉化。台灣文學史的1937至1940年，因為戰爭影響導致報紙漢文欄廢止以及純文學雜誌停擺，而被當時文學者賦予「空白」、「冬眠」、「黑夜」與「寂寥」等意象。本文經由報紙學藝欄的梳理以複雜化對此階段的詮釋，彰顯戰爭時期台灣文學的多元面貌。

This paper investigates the newspaper Taiwan Shin Minpou’ literary column in wartimeTaiwan under Japanese colonialism, exploring how Taiwanese writers who wrote inJapanese after Chinese was banned to appear in newspapers used this space to speak upand to make dialogues with a reading public in the making. This paper first examinesthe organizing of Domei Tsushinsha as well as Japan-Taiwan’s political transformationand the changing policy regarding journalism. Taiwan Shin Minpo’s “collection of newwavenovellas,” edited by Huang Deshi, is closely scrutinized about Huang’s editingstrategies. This paper addresses how these novellas helped to create new readership andto mobilize a movement which was to make transition to another literary high point ata later time.This paper indicates that this “collection of new-wave novellas” created an imageryspace for both elite and popular readers. This imagery space made possible by the editor,the novelists, and the painters re-energized colonial Taiwan’s literary circles temporarilydeactivated due to the eruption of the war. This paper interprets these original andartistic creations in a time of what Huang Deshi had called “literary blankness” or LongYing-zong had called “the darkness of literature” in order to shed new light on the complexitiesof wartime literature in colonial Taiwan.