英文摘要 |
This article explores the framework of indigenous-Han relations in Taiwan literature in the early 21st century. Current scholarships on the representations of indigenous people by Han Taiwanese writers tend to focus on the indigenous-Han relations formulated within a binary opposition and the writing ethics behind it. However, in contrast to “the victimized indigenous people vs. Han settlers” model in the late 20th century, this article calls attentions to two novel in the early 21st century, which situate the indigenous-Han relations in the historical context of the geographical expansion of global colonialism and the wartime. It uses textual analysis of Li Yongping's Where the Great River Ends (2008, 2010) and Kan Yao-ming's Killing Ghosts (2009) to examine the cross-ethnic encounters among indigenous peoples, Chinese settlers, and Western/Japanese colonizer. Such a reading may help reframe the more complex and diverse indigenous-Han relations. |