A Study On The Ghosts Narrative In Yao-Ming Gan’s New Native Soil Novels

In the early of 21 st century, there has risen a new force in the Taiwan literary circles which was promoted by literary prizes. This new influence is led by Zhe-Sheng Yuan and followed by Yao-Ming Gan, Ming-Yi Wu, Wei-Ge Tong, Ge-Yan Yi, Yao-Sheng Zhang and Rong-Ze Xu.Influenced by the post-modernist aesthetics, this new generation of writers shows different attitude towards their native land, although most of their literary creations are about home village, the connotation story expressed and the narration method writer used are both different from the elder writers. Therefore, their writings are now defined by many literary critics as the new native soil novel.This paper takes Yao-Ming Gan, one representative of New Folklore writers in Taiwan, as study object, and he is also regarded as “the best one” of the writers that born in 1970 s. The purpose of this thesis is to interpret Gan’s intentional “Ghosts Narrative” writing strategy which one he uses in his new native soil novels to advance “literature recognition” and also to inspect the innovations his novels have made in “Native Soil Novel” and “Ghosts Narrative”. The main content of the article includes three parts. The first part makes clear that the character, plot and atmosphere in his novel are all enveloped in a shroud of mystery, in order to propose basic reasons for this study. Then there appears the question that how ghost narrative embodies in the text. In the second part, the author answers it by analyzing narrative subject, narrative technique and narrative perspective that Gan uses most often. And find that, the writer inserts the adapted myths and legends into his text to expand the mythology space, uses the physical disfigurement expression method in post-modern sense to convey identity anxiety of Taiwanese’s identity anxiety, sees the world through children’s perspective to create fantastic pictures. At last, the paper discuss the carnival views in the text and points out that the writer’s writing intention is trying to build a nation heterotopias which is more inclusive in his novel.