英文摘要 |
Chen Hui-Chen’s The Wandering Lamb and Wen Shin’s The Mud Road were both set during the era of World War II and depict the themes of adolescent growth and enlightenment. One of them depicts war scenes and family narratives in the colonizer state of Japan, and the other one, in the colonized space of Taiwan. The narrators and the backgrounds of these stories form contrasts and reflect the dynamic relationship between the authors’biographical texts, experiences and memories, and the formation of social identity. From the generational perspective, both Chen and Wen shared similar life experiences. They were both Taiwanese authors in the Showa period who belonged to the generation that spoke Japanese, and they both spent their adolescence against the backdrop of World War II. Their works The Wandering Lamb and The Mud Road both narrate from the perspective of adolescents to interpret life during the war using their thoughts and feelings, their linguistic syntax, and their narrative strategies. Subsequently, both works depict the social imagery and generational memories during the war that were oppressed yet desired to be represented. This study first discusses adolescent life amid evacuation during the war in the colonizing and colonized countries depicted in the two works to detail the physiological and psychological changes and growth in the characters as well as daily life during the war. Next, this study discusses family writing centered on women’s narratives in both works to depict the formation and migration of the in-group in the diaspora narrative. Through the narrative perspectives of the two writers’texts about war, the unique perspective of adolescents is used to portray the colonized Taiwanese as a diasporic group during the war, as post-war Taiwanese people’s interpretation of history and their cultural mentality toward wartime memories are embodied within their writings. |