Kan Yao-ming’s novel "minBunun", published in 2021, is based on the Sancha Mountain incident and unfolds many complex ethical and emotional issues. Amis writer Nakao Eki Pacidal’s novel "LuanBuWanShuiQianShan" takes a political crisis in the Fata’an tribe four hundred years ago as a starting point and attempts to explore the intertwined relationship among history, the academic system, and the living conditions of indigenous people. The article points out that, unlike previous gay literature works in Taiwan, which usually emphasizes "identity", "resistance" and "differences", these two novels make progress in combining the descriptions of homosexual love with a new way of imagining history. They also revisit chaos and the progress of war from a tribal perspective, revealing the complex entanglements of tribal communtities and war ethics through the lens of the love story between men. "Counterparts" and "entanglements" in the title correspond to the design of the plot, characters, time and space, as well as the multi-layered relationships among war, history, the colonial legacy, tribal politics, and contemporary society in the novel. This article begins with Nakao Eki Pacidal’s explorations on the concept of “the face of the inbetweener” and, as an indigenous history researcher and writer, her reflections on her positioning in the academic system, research vision , and identity in order to recognize the intertwined relationships in "LuanBuWanShuiQianShan" and "minBunun". Additionaly, the article elaborates on the double meaning underlying the word “counterparts” as being opposites and being a pair, which is evident in several groups of characters from the two novels, and the critical power within them.
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