新南方論述：《邦查女孩》與定居殖民批判

New Southern Discourse: The Pangcah Girl and Settler Colonial Criticism

本文以全球南方的相關論述為基點，首先透過社會學家康奈爾（Raewyn Connell）在《南方理論》（Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science）書中對主流社會學科的批判，反思知識生產過程中經常被忽略的地緣政治面相。接著，嘗試透過定居殖民批判（settler colonial criticism）的視角出發，作為連結臺灣此一定居殖民地以及全球南方的論述框架之間的支點，藉此探討臺灣在南方理論視域下所能開展的論述潛能，以及臺灣文學與全球南方之間尚待挖掘的理論關係與知識聯結。本文將以定居殖民批判的觀點閱讀甘耀明的長篇小說《邦查女孩》，探討臺灣文學如何通過對重層殖民歷史的批判書寫，進一步與全球南方的相關論述形成對話、互動的潛力。如此，讓臺灣此地緣政治空間與文化場域重新參與全球南方的論述形構，同時將自身建構為一種新的「南方論述」。

Beginning with a discussion of Australian sociologist Raewyn Connell’s “southern theory,” this essay takes the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies as methodology to investigate the discursive connection between Taiwan and the Global South. I argue that it is exactly the settler colonial structure in Taiwan, as well as its convergence with the US during the Cold War era, that forecloses its possibility to partake in the discussion of the Global South. Next, by reading Taiwanese writer Gan Yaoming’s novel The Pangcah Girl through the lens of settler colonial criticism, this essay attempts to reconnect Taiwan with the Global South and further explore their discursive relationality that has long been ignored and under-researched.