| Abstract: | It is generally said that in the 1950s, Taiwan’s literary world was strongly influenced and restricted by the anti-Communist literary system. At that time, literary production was mainly undertaken by specific institutions, publisher and magazines in response to national policy needs. Among them, the magazine “Art in the Army”, under the guidance and subsidies of the General Political Department of the Ministry of National Defense, was issued during the heyday of anti-communist literature and art from 1954-6. It can be said to be a representative example of concrete practice under the state-led anti-communist literature and art. It cooperates with the implementation of the policy of “Arts in the Army”, puts forward the slogan “The nation is supreme, battle is the first”, constantly promotes the concepts of anti-communism and resistance to Russia, national justice, and Three People`s Principles, and actively promotes anti-communist literature. In addition to the publication of a considerable number of theoretical articles on literary and artistic creation, “Art in the Army” published more than 5 novels in an average periodical, and about 130 articles were published in 26 issues. Most of these novels embody combat literature on the theme of anti-communism, resistance to Russia and counterattack against the mainland. There have been a number of studies on the historical positioning, aesthetic standards and literary attributes of anti-communist literature in academia. On top of those pioneer studies, this article first sorts out the combat literature related expositions published in “Art in the Army”, and then takes novels as the research object for the relevant discussions on the content of his novels, narrative structure, character images, and language rhetoric, investigating how the so-called “anti-communist novels” include the memory of the people, and how the nationalist narrative, constructed by the theory of “combat literature and art”, shapes anti-communist ethics. Based on this, this article further re-examines the literary attributes and social functions of anti-Communist literature and art in the 1950s, and review the historicity of anti-Communist novels. |
