Anti-Heroes and Irony in Syaman Rapongan's Laohairen《老海人》and Walis Nokan's Chengshi canku 《城市殘酷》

Abstract

This paper focuses on the tension between the notion of hero and anti-hero in the texts of two well-known Taiwanese indigenous authors Syaman Rapongan and Walis Nokan (or Norgan).

Keywords

• Anti-Heroes
• Irony
• Syaman Rapongan
• Walis Nokan
• Taiwan literature