劉吶鷗(1905-1940)：現代主義變色龍

Abstract

This Paper is an intercultural study of only one character, Liu Na'ou (1905-1940), his name of birth is Liu Canbo, borned in Taiwan under the Japanese Occupation (1895-1945) and evolving in the artistic background of the urban culture which the world of Shanghai offered to the turning of the beginning of the twentieth century. This study is composed of seven chapters. The introduction will pose the bases of the problems of the perception of Others in a multiculturalist situation, by basing us on the case of Liu Na'ou. We will examine in the same aims the role of the memory in the collective and individual conscience, through various meanings of expression that we could find. The first two chapters will carry on Liu Na'ou through his short life of man sailing between three national spaces, the colonial Taiwan, the imperialist Japan and the nationalist China, which have with their own manners contributed to his cultural and political identity evolution. This identity formation will be studied here, through his linguistic representations. In the third chapter, we will be interested in his political evolution, or to be more exactly, apolitical. Then, in the fourth chapter, we will study his modern literature inspired by the various experiences gained at the time of his geographical shifts, and the influence That the School of the Japanese New Sensations had on his work. The following chapter is devoted to his visual art in its broadest direction. We will fly over his activities in the Cinema, to stop us on the only remaining trace of his cinematographic works in order to try to understand his approach with respect to this art. We will continue in the following chapter by a reading of his translations of Japanese poems. Finally, to show that Liu Na'ou was a complete artist, we will examine his illustrations of covers of magazines which he drew himself. To conclude, we will be able to observe how Liu Na’ou sailed among his various identities, his various spaces of expressions. But, especially in what kind of context this dominant cultural identity appeared. What will enable us to lean on the heritage that he left behind him.