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Contrast between two Japanese images, two identities : comparison of Sayonara, Zai-jian and My Diary of Japanomania

This thesis illustrates a general sense of national identity within the Taiwanese people brought on by the Kuomintang (KMT) and existing throughout the KMT's reign over the island, and contrasts this with the new identity that came to exist in the post-KMT period. Comparisons are centered around two works of literature: Sayonara, Zaijian!, written in 1979 by Chunming Huang, and My Diary of Japanomania, written in 1999 by Hari Xingzi. Louis Althusser's view of history-based on structural materialism, complexity and overdetermination---will be employed to discuss and explain the contrast between Sayonara, Zaijian! and My Diary of Japanomania in order to discover how national subject is formed and how it interacts within ideology.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.98552
Date January 2006
CreatorsLin, Cheng-Ying, 1973-
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageMaster of Arts (Department of East Asian Studies.)
Rights© Cheng-Ying Lin, 2006
Relationalephsysno: 002335959, proquestno: AAIMR24890, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest.

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