問題化「後現代」－以八O年代中期台灣「後現代詩」的想像建構為觀察中心

Abstract

This article focuses on the appearance, acceptance and canonization of ＂post-modern poetry＂ in Taiwan in the mid-1980s. The establishment of ＂postmodern poetry＂ as a literary genre was constructed by Luo Ching, Lin Yao-te, and Meng Fan to demonstrate and explain that the ＂post-modern condition＂ also existed in Taiwan. Notably these introducers tried to construct a new genre of post-modern literature not by translating foreign post-modern poetry into Chinese, but by finding the post-modern spirit in the existing poetry of young poets in Taiwan, which were born after W.W.II. In fact, the postmodern discourse of Taiwan in this period was connected to the rise of a new generation of writers and urban writings. The younger generation adopted this as a strategy to fight against their elders, making a rupture between generations and overcoming their ＂anxiety of influence＂ towards the modernists and realists. The spread of ＂post-modernism＂ in Taiwan was therefore not just an example of global knowledge flow, but also a localization process that chimed with the transformation of social and economical situation, the rise of younger generation writers, and the post-colonial condition after the lift of martial law in 1987.