The Constitution of Independent Hong Kong Identities in Post-2014 Artistic Representations-from Literature to Beyond

本研究旨在探讨2014年后香港独立身份在艺术和语言表现形式中的建构，从英语香港文学到华语文学作品，其他艺术表现形式如电影和音乐，以及非艺术话语如本地论坛和政府政策文件中的网上言论，从后殖民和非殖民的角度，加上语言学研究方法，如批评话语分析（CDA）和文体分析。这项研究将专注于2014年之后产生的陈述，因为这一年被视为香港历史的转折点，标志着香港本土主义的出现沿着独立的香港身份认同感，自那时以来，特别是在2019年反引渡法修正案运动之后，这种认同感迅速增长。

This research aims to examine the construction of an independent identity of Hong Kong in post-2014 artistic and linguistic representations starting from Anglophone Hong Kong literature to Sinophone literary works, other artistic representations namely films and music and non-artistic discourses such as online utterances in local forums and government policy documents, from a postcolonial and decolonial perspective with the addition of linguistic research approaches such as critical discourse analysis (CDA) and stylistic analysis. This research will focus on representations produced after 2014 as the year is seen as a turning point of Hong Kong history, marking the emergence of Hong Kong Localism along with the sense of an independent Hong Kong identity, which rapidly grew since then and especially after the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in 2019.