英文摘要
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The Taiwanese female image depicted in novels during the Japanese Colonial Period is often the image of sacrifice under double depression due to the domination of the Japanese colonial system as well as family patriarchy. Sakaguchi Reiko was one of a handful of active Japanese female writers in Taiwan at that period. As a female of the imperialist country who lives in a colonized society and a literary circle that is under the war system, how does Sakaguchi Reiko view those colonized females? What kind of mechanism does Taiwanese female image reveal in her works? This paper studies Sakaguchi Reiko's novels written close to the end of the war, Chen Yi Chia and Shih Chi Tsau, Ling Ren, to discuss the Taiwanese female image through those themes of "royal citizen establishment," "mixed marriage" and "mixed blood." Compared with other Taiwan-residing Japanese writers' works, Sakaguchi Reiko's are more fluent in applying the views of females. She stresses describing the mood and spiritual world of different roles, and she is capable of bringing up the core of issues. Under imperial literature's ideal statement of "Father's Family," Sakaguchi Reiko has observed the uneasiness and bitterness of imperialized Taiwanese females who suffer one more layer of agony than do colonized male characters: the agony of being forbidden to express themselves freely. Even though Sakaguchi Reiko's self-consciousness may be still quite limited to a colonialist's narrow vision that is unable to probe the Japanese colonial policy in more depth, her voice cannot be ignored as her depiction on the relationships between the colonialists and the colonized is beyond the imaginative framework of the rulers upon the ruled.
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