題名: Reading City History in Contemporary Taiwanese Drama 作者: Hsiao-fu Ho;Tsui-fen Jiang
貢獻者: 政治大學英語學系
關鍵詞: Human Condition;Wedding Memories;The Village;urbanization;nostalgia;ambivalence 日期: 2009-12-16
上傳時間: 2010-01-08T02:15:20Z 出版者: 亞洲大學外國語文學系
摘要: At the inception of the 21st century, major Taiwanese playwrights offer retrospection on the modern history of Taiwan. Wu Nienzhen (吳念真) juxtaposes between the 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, and 2000s in his Human Condition (《人間條件 1, 2 3 &4》2003, 2006, 2007, 2009). Hugh Lee (李國 修) tells stories of his mother’s generation of the 1930s,
1960s, and 2000s in Wedding Memories (《女兒紅》2006). They situate their plays in Taipei, the former probably in Dadaochen (大稻埕) and the latter in Zhonghua Shopping Mall (中華商場). The other prestigious playwright Stan Lai (賴聲川), in collaboration with Weizhong Wang (王偉 忠), also narrates the story of the mainlanders’ dependent
village in Taiwan in his recent production The Village (《寶島一村》2008).
Even though the setting of the play is in Jiayi, as the co-scriptwriter Wang states, as a microscopic prototype, this dependent village life can be seen everywhere in Taiwan, including Taipei. These playwrights simultaneously draw our attention to the changing city narrative in their plays. Hence, this paper intends to examine the intersection of urbanization, nostalgia, ambivalent memory, and city landscape in Wu’s Human Condition, Lee’s Wedding Memories, and Lai’s The Village.
