Analysis Literature Appearance of Nishkawa Mitsuru during Greater East Asia War--center around 《Taiwan Jyukan Tetsudou (Taiwan North-south Railway)》
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Tsai, Wan-Cheng
Abstract
In order to accord with national policy during East Asia War, Nishikawa Mitsuru found a new way, which he called as “New Art” to write his novels. I will mainly analysis his historical novel “Taiwan Jyukan Tetsudou (Taiwan North-south Railway)”, which is also his last one written in Taiwan. And focus on his writing performance during this time. The main point of this thesis is to see how Nishikawa performed the “New Art” during this time, and whether his new challenge succeeded or not.
According to the research result, Nishikawa Mitsuru once thought that art, logic and moral as individual values. However, during East Asia War, he was forced to combine art with moral into his novel. Therefore he had to think of a new saying which is known as “New Art” to show his new writing direction. Nevertheless, his old concept of art strongly influenced his writing style. Compare to his old novels, there is not much difference with his latest one. Before he tended to write about personal love, in “Taiwan Jyukan Tetsudou”, he changed it into the love of nation. So called “New Art” which is written in the novel, is actually refers to patriotism. This is the most different part from his old works. However, as seen from the representation of the story, the patriotism is obviously not his real thinking but only for following the national policy. Nishikawa’s attitude has always been a observer only, as in the past.
Subjects
Nishikawa Mitsuru
Exoticism
Kou-Min Literature
Colonia Literature
Kuso Realism
Taiwan Jyukan Tetsudou
Type
thesis
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