世代認同與歷史敘事：台灣一九七零年代「回歸現實」世代的形成
Other Title
Generational Identity and Historical Narrative: The Emergence of the “Back-to-Reality” Generation in 1970s Taiwan
Resource
台灣社會學 (9),1-58
Journal
台灣社會學
Pages
1-58
Date Issued
2005-06
Date
2005-06
Author(s)
蕭阿勤
DOI
2006092711591163293
Abstract
The author uses a combination of narrative identity theory & Karl Mannheim’s theory of generation to a) analyze the emergence of a “backto-reality” generation in 1970s Taiwan & b) examine the relationship between their back-to-reality ideas & generational identity. Taiwan’s major diplomatic failures in the early 1970s awakened young intellectuals (both Taiwanese natives & the children of mainland Chinese) to new challenges facing the country. They relied on a modern Chinese nationalist historical narrative to make sense of the situation & to promote a sense of duty to the country among other members of their generation, attacking the prevailing sojourn mentality & supporting back-to-reality ideas & socio-political reforms. The author shows that the frame of reference for generational identity was a nationalist historical narrative, within which intellectuals positioned themselves & struggled to make sense of their generation’s
meaning of existence. Their attempts to act out their philosophy qualify them as Taiwan’s “back-to-reality” generation. I offer an analysis of how a generational identity shaped by a nationalist historical narrative evolved into a primary motivation for historical actors, noting that generational consciousness was a function of specific social change, which in turn became an agency that facilitated further social change. In this situation, generation--a conceptual category through which the awakening back-to-reality generation understood self & society & articulated its socio-political reformism--was a historical phenomenon in which subjective agency & objective environmental conditions were of equal significance. It is important to study this generation’s discourses & actions as remote origins of the indigenization or Taiwanization of contemporary Taiwanese politics & culture.
Subjects
identity
narrative
generation
back-to-reality
nationalism
Publisher
臺北市:國立臺灣大學社會系所
Type
journal article
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