從日本殖民時期的南方殖民地文學、戰後的太平洋戰爭記憶書寫、到出身東南亞國家書寫的南方華文文學，南方想像一再浮現。近幾年，台灣千禧世代作家有意識地書寫南方，展現新一階段的南方面貌，更是耐人尋味。這一篇論文擬探討連明偉《藍莓夜的告白》（2019）裡的「南方」，希冀勾勒二十一世紀初的南方想像新貌。這一本小說透過一名前往加拿大五星級旅館打工度假的台灣青年，描寫非洲、亞洲、南美洲的南方底層移民的生命移動軌跡，另一方面，帶出「打工度假」、「台勞輸出」等當代台灣社會重要議題，開闢以往台灣文學未曾處理過的新題材。
From the southern literature during the Japanese colonial period, the Post-war memory writing of the Pacific War, to the southern Sinophone literature written by writers from the Southeast Asian countries, the southern imagination emerged repeatedly is undoubtedly an important issue. In recent years, Taiwanese millennial writers have consciously written about the South, showing a new stage of the southern imagination.
This paper intends to discuss the Southern vision in Mingwei Lien’s “The Confession of Blueberry Nights” with the hope of outlining the new vision of the South in the early 21st century. This short stories collection uses a Taiwanese working holiday maker who worked in a five-star hotel in Canada to describe the life traces of the subaltern southern immigrants from Africa, Asia, and South America. On the other hand, it brings out the issues of “working holiday” and “Taiwanese migrant workers” and other important debates in contemporary Taiwanese society.
