英文摘要
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This paper researches WANG Chang-xiong (王昶雄)'s short novel HONRYU (奔流), comparing it with ZHOU Jin-po (周金波)'s work SHIGANEI (志願兵). The main purpose of this paper is to clarify the main theme, originality, and the position of the main text in the context of Taiwanese literature in the period of Japanese colonization. In the history of Taiwanese literature, these two works raised the question of whether is imperial subject literature (皇民文學) or not. But the main focus of this paper is not on this question.
From text analysis, we can find the motif, relationship between three characters, and the story of HONRYU is very similar to the story in SIGANHEI. So I think that HONRYU is in pastiche of SHIGANHEI which was published 2 years earlier. But, a gap of two years exits between the two novels, so naturally there is apparent difference in the two works. The main theme of HONRYU is 'in the Japanese Empire, and the question of how the Taiwanese think of themselves as a nation'. This theme is just on the opposite side of SIGANHEI's main theme-how Taiwanese behave as Japanese.
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