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This paper focuses on a series written by Hualien County representative writer Hawk Rumaling (1949-, real name Lin Minghua) about cane workers. Hawk’s cane worker village chronicle “Yamato-chi: The Birth of a Village” (2004) and the non-fiction history of cane workers entitled “The Name of Sugar Cane” (2013) together with the collection of novels “One Street Village” (2017) set in cane village apply, a variety of genres Different types of writing reproduce the history of Dafu and Dafeng villages, which today belong to Guangfu Township, Hualien County. These books are rare writings on the topic of cane workers in Taiwan, reflecting the special social groups that have emerged from different sugar production backgrounds in the East and West, and have strong intertextuality, which deserves attention. These works can be referred to as Hawk’s “Three Books about Cane Worker”, which covers the rise and fall of special industrial villages over the past century, industry and culture, and the vicissitudes of grace. Starting from the Japanese occupation period that commenced in 1895, Hawk constructs the narrative timeline, laying out the background to the establishment of “Yamato Village” (the Japanese occupation village) in the 1910s, the composition of the villagers, the interaction with the sugar cane industry, village culture, and living customs. Hawk’s care spanned the Colonial era, continued to the post-war Taiwan sugar period when the national government came to Taiwan ( during which it witnessed post-war recovery and prosperity and the outflow of the population after 1960 ), and finally summarized in 2002 how the sugar mill was transformed, the cane plantation was no longer, the aging of the village population, and the undying rural spirit. The cane workers and the cane workers’ village is the core of this essay, recognizing that Hawk uses the evidence of the classics, the interview records of the reporter, and the blood and tears of foreign cane workers. Then, the Austronesian language family is projected, which is assembled into “Yamato: The Birth of a Village” and “The Name of Sugar Cane”. Then, following the overall trend of community creation of village consciousness, the nutrients of love for the countryside and the consciousness of the back mountain are injected into the collection “One Street Village”, which are incarnated into different characters in the book; for example, A-Fool and Jiang'an, The reader is led into the star sea of cane workers’ narratives using a multi-layered, multi-perspective vocal position, acting and talking, playing and receiving, seemingly to be moving and static, sometimes with polyphonic harmony, sometimes immersed in solo chanting, with its constellation-style brushwork. In terms of research methods, the author mainly uses text analysis to introduce Michel Serres’ “learned third party”, hoping to “seek passage” the spatial imagery and character content The surface and underlying story lines of the hide. Supplemented by Edward Soja’s “third space”, the meaning of Hawk’s various real and virtual images is explained from the viewing and imaginary position of the “other”. In the process of discussion, the author also cites Yi-Fu Tuan’s spatial experience perspective and Halbwachs’ theory of collective memory, while referring to advanced journal articles and theoretical scholars at home and abroad as evidence and echoes, hoping to build a channel to the core of Halbwachs’ writing, summarizing the natural commonality and local particularity that are closer to his creation. Through the village history record and novel creation of Hawk’s “Three Books of Cane Worker”, the author summarizes two major discoveries from the writing of village history. First, four narrative characteristics identified: 1) the writing skills of “rheology” and “multiple voices” in the form of village history; 2) the writing of “constellations in the sky” leading to “real” and “imaginary”; 3) the narrative writing that sometimes polyphons “mixed voices” and is sometimes immersed in a “solitary groan”, and 4) the tethered person and the ferry seeker the afterglow of the mix; The second category, topic shaping, comprises four characteristics: 1) the longitudinal writing of the consciousness of the back mountain; 2) the formation of river mountain forest reclamation and post-disaster self-help association; 3) rural spirit and community building; and 4) the integration of ethnic culture and local spirit. To summarize the spatial consciousness and issues that Hawk touches on in each “time-space” extension.
Keywords: Hualien County, Guangfu Township, Dafu Village, Dafeng Village, Yamato Village, sugar factory, cane workers’ writing, Serres, the third, Soja, thirdspace, Halbwachs, collective memory, village history, community building
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