鹽分地帶文藝營研究(1979-2008)

Abstract

The purpose of this article aims to the development of the Saline Land Literary Camp. First, the article retraces the situation of art camps in Taiwan before the Literary Camp in this article. Then, this article describes the founding process of Saline Land Literary Camp in detail, including how four important founders: Huang Jin-Lian, Yang Zi-Qiao, Du Wen-Jing and Huang Chong-Xiong met together, and how they invited Wu San-Lian as the chief manager of the Art Camp. The author views the past three decades of the Saline Land Literary Camp can be divided into three periods. The first period is the dominance of Salty Zone literary friends, from the 1st annual, 1979 to the 5th annual, 1983. The second period is the dominance of Independent Supplement, from the 6th annual, 1984 to the 16th annual, 1994. The third period is the dominance of Wu San-lien Taiwan Historical Foundation, from the 17th annual, 1995, to the 30th annual, 2008. The author assesses every periods’ organizers, including sponsors, the director general, and the team members of local literary friends; the location of the activity; the time of the activity; form and methods of the camp; lecturers; writers in residence; campers; curriculum, including soirees and conferences; writing challenges; the execution of the special commending award of Taiwan New Literature, which was named the award of contribution of Taiwan New Literature later; and some other activities which were held by literary friends in the Salty Zone at the same time and the same place. The author not only assesses things above but also points out problems that every camp period met. The author compares every period and finds the similarities and differences. In the later part of this article the author discusses the contribution of the art camp to Taiwanese culture and literature. In Taiwanese culture, the author aims to discuss the whole Taiwan culture versus the culture of the Salty Zone. In Taiwan literature, the author aims to discuss the thesis of literature, literature education and the society of literature. The author discovers the camp thoroughly and gives the camp more proper status.