Novel·field: Wu He's Creation and the Twists and Turns of Taiwan's Modernity

About This Novel

Wu He (1951-) is an important novelist in contemporary Taiwan. His writing based on his personal life experience is surprising and rich, running through the major transitions and issues of modernity in Taiwanese society since the 1970s. This book travels between the desk of literature and the field of social life, exploring the literary and historical connotations of Wu He's creation and the twists and turns of Taiwan's modernity issues it reflects: including reflections on colonial history, the emergence of a sense of freedom under the martial law system, the rise of local politics and local cultural narratives, rural/urban modern landscapes and criticism, and the utopian imagination of minority cultures, etc. In short, Wu He embodies the aesthetic heights and ideological dilemmas achieved by Taiwan's "baby boomer" generation of writers after the war by integrating "native experience" and "modernism." The second part of the book examines six novels in detail, discussing the novels of the Chinese in Taiwan, Chen Yingzhen, Guo Songfen, Bai Xianyong, Zhang Wenhuan, Lu Heruo, etc., In order to extend the discussion of Taiwan's modernity issues to more aspects, especially the submergence and rebirth of left-wing ideas with modern enlightenment significance in literature since the Japanese occupation era.

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