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This thesis is to study the author Wang Shi-Lang, who is the Taiwan New Literature Writer in colonial Taiwan, as the research object. Previous studies on Wang Shi-Lang mostly focused on his literary consciousness and social movements. On the contrary, this thesis will take its “space experience” and “colonial modernity” as the beginning point to discuss the urban writing of Wang Shi-Lang’ s novels. Taiwan urban writing in the 1930s is mainly based on the historical context of colonial modernity. The consciousness of writer and the experience of urban modernity expressed by the characters in the writer's works have its deep “political metaphors” and “progressive discourse”, it regain the right of writing and interpretation of Taiwan history. Wang Shi-Lang’s life experience and his literary works span from pre-war colonial Taiwan to post-war Taiwan and from the island capital Taipei, Shanghai and Guangzhou. This thesis will integrate a contextualized study and follow his creation timeline of pre-war and post-war, as well as the space spanning between Taiwan and China. In addition to focusing on novels, this thesis will combine Wang Shi-Lang's literary criticism and new poetry of different types in the same period to explore the potential mutual references between different genres. By this way, it goes deep into the complex and intertwined connotations of the four aspects of spatiality, historicity, sociality, and colonial presented in the urban literature texts. |