Ahronglong Sakinu is a Paiwan writer who has great charm and has been maintaining the pride of the indigenous people with his humorous and optimistic personality and defending the treasures of Paiwan culture with his incredibly enthusiasm and dedication. By using a plain but unique style of writing, Sakinu touches the heart of the readers. Not only does Sakinu pass his father¡¦s wisdom as a hunter in his works, but he also defends the Paiwan culture with his pen instead of his Aboriginal knife. Through his approachable and fun style of writing, Sakinu always infects his readers with his optimistic thoughts. On this account, this study attempts to adopt the text analysis method and interviews to explore the writing strategies and the spirit and meaning of Sakinu¡¦s works.
This study has divided into five chapters to conduct the discussion, and the main contents of each chapter are listed as follows:
Chapter 1: ¡§Introduction¡¨¢wThis chapter contains the research motivation, research scope and methodology, literature review, and thesis structure.
Chapter 2: ¡§Ahronglong Sakinu¡¦s Life and Works¡¨¢wThis chapter sequentially introduces Sakinu¡¦s background from his boyhood, his job in Special Police First Headquarters, to the time he returned to his tribe in order to probe into his road of cultural identity and his determination of establishing a hunter school. Further, the influence of Paiwan culture on him has been explored as well. In the end of this chapter, his works that have been published so far are also provided for a throughout exploration.
Chapter 3: ¡§Ahronglong Sakinu¡¦s Writing Strategies¡¨¢wThe writing strategies of his works have been explored from three aspects: the forms of language expression, the skills of language expression, and the strategies of rhetorical application. In the forms of language expression, Sakinu has a unique writing style which presents a large number of untranslated Aboriginal words and Aboriginal language with phonetic symbols in his works. In addition, he also has excellent rhetorical skills which sufficiently and clearly show his feelings towards the harmonious living with the nature through an anthropomorphic animal world and subtle animal metaphors. Also, both the first-person form of expression and the extensive use of dialogue make his works more vivid and lively.
Chapter 4: ¡§The Spirit and Meaning of Ahronglong Sakinu¡¦s Works¡¨¢wIn this chapter, four aspects which include ¡§the assistant who enlightens the literary life¡¨, ¡§inherit the wisdom of a philosophical hunter¡¨, ¡§arouse the self-identity of the tribal group¡¨ and ¡§accuse the invasion of power culture¡¨ have been explored to have a better understanding of the spirit and meaning of Sakinu¡¦s works.
Chapter 5: ¡§Conclusion¡¨¢wThe final chapter has summarized the research results of this study. Moreover, the value of Sakinu¡¦s works and their contributions to developing and preserving traditional culture have been also explored to see the implementation of the traditional hunter culture in his works. Finally, further relevant research that can be extended is provided for future reference as well.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0911112-103912 |
| Date | 11 September 2012 |
| Creators | Chen, chang-Li |
| Contributors | Pu Chung Cheng, Dr.Hsien-Tsung Kung, Yang Ya Hui |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0911112-103912 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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