Alienation And Assimilation——Study On Military Dependents Villages'Novels Of Taiwan

Military dependents village is an unique political and cultural product of the contemporary Taiwanese society, it is not a natural geographical exclusive title, but the inhabited areas and collective memories that the ethnic group "Mainlanders" moved from the mainland to Taiwan constructed artificially in a particular historical period. The literature of military dependents village originated in this specific historical and cultural context of Taiwan as a military dependent village. Its writing body is mainly the special group as the second generation of the mainlanders who were born and grew up in those villages. Concerning the definition of the scope of military dependents village's literature, the definition the cross-strait academic circle agreed with relatively is:military dependents village's literature is created by the second-generation mainlander writers who have the military dependents village's living experience, is the literature works in different styles which can reflect the life circumstances, emotional mark and life influence of military dependents villages' mainlanders. Military dependents village's literature mainly based on novel creation and be the first to open the first, meanwhile it's also a kind of expression in its greatest influence and largest scale, in addition, it also includes many kinds of literature forms:prose, poetry, reportage, film and television dramas and so on. The novels emphasis on the creators' life experience in military dependents village and describe the content of its works and the correlation with military dependents village, so military dependents village novels have a distinctive local color, and it is the other exist space different from social, cultural and living environment in Taiwan Province;these two generations of mainlanders living in the military groups are the body and mind double "discrete" groups, at the same time, discrete wandering, dazed rootless life experiences and spiritual imprint deeply rooted in the heart of the military dependents village people; the military dependents village novels show up traditional Chinese culture complex and recognition ideas everywhere, most of military dependents mainlanders have the similar ideals and life of modality.Examining military dependents village novels writing from the whole, you will find that there are many differences between the Eighties and Nineties in the last century, and the second-generation writers of the military dependents village in these two stages basically show two different creation tendencies to and situations. Accordingly in the paper the development and evolution of the military dependents village novels are divided into two periods:pre-writing, refers to the military dependents novels from the mid1970s to the1980s, this period writers more perform the deep emotion and cultural identity of the homeland,"Military" has become the poetic spirit home and rich intrinsic symbolic region; later creation, refers to the military dependents village novels from the1990s to early2000, the second-generation of writers in this stage are eye-catching because they are known as the "ethnic issues", reflecting the strong military community critical spirit and pursuing consciousness again, strokes gradually transferred from the hometown life of military dependents village to the province's social life. Taking the1990s as a boundary, this article discusses a whole process from "alienation" to "integration" that the military dependents village novels describe the common experience the second-generation mainlanders in Taiwan Province.