日治时期的“民族想象” ：以《送报夫》和《植有木瓜树的小镇》为中心 = The imagined community under Japanese rule : the newspaper boy and a small town with papaya trees

• Main Author: 郑煌玲 Tay, Stephanie Wang Ling
• Other Authors: Lan Shi-Chi
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: Chinese
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::Chinese
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20953
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

民族论述往往与政治事件挂钩，台湾当然也不例外。从二二八事件到台海危机都有学者以此为台湾民族论述的依据，但却鲜少有学者将民族论述与文学结合并加以分析。本文欲以《送报夫》和《植有木瓜树的小镇》为中心，探讨在日治时期的台湾人是否已拥有形成一个民族的条件，从而看当时，台湾民族是否已萌芽。本文将运用本迪克特• 安德森(Benedict Anderson)与厄内斯特• 勒南(Ernest Renan)对民族理论的阐述，进一步对民族的形成条件作出定义。接着，本文会指出民族想象与小说的重要关系，以及小说如何有助于民族想象，并提出“他者”在民族论述中的重要性。最后，本文将会通过对两篇小说的分析加以探讨日据时期的台湾民族想象。Studies on nationalism are usually linked up with political events and Taiwanese nationalism is no exception as well. Often, past research had used the February 28th Incident and the Taiwan Strait Crisis as basis for the argument. However, it is rare to find research which approached the issue of nationalism from the perspective of literary works. With reference to The Newspaper Boy ( Song Bao Fu) and A Small Town with Papaya Trees ( Zhi You Mu Gua De Xiao Zhen), this paper attempts to find out if a Taiwan nation had already emerged during the Japanese colonial period and whether the conditions were ripe for the formation of a Taiwan nation.