| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 96 === Using females as the main characters in her four Chinese-translated novels── Wenn das Glück kommt (當幸福來臨時), Bitterschokolade (苦澀巧克力), Malka Mai (瑪卡‧麥), and Die Zeit der schlafenden Hunde (狗兒沈睡時分) , Mirjam Pressler, a German female writer, develops a way of critiquing social values from the feminine viewpoints and presents the female's body endurance for cultural inscription as well as their attitudes towards authority.
Based on the roles of girls, teen-aged girls, and mothers in these four novels, the present study explored females' autonomy toward extrinsic appearances and the wake of intrinsic eroticism. It also discussed the process of their search for self-identity from their self-other relationship in their families, love, and marriage. No matter a good loving wife and mother or a rebellious teen-aged girl, their voices became an exit for breaking the contention of silence and expressed the female's resistance against single-value social standard. Even though the family angel and the rebellious girl formed two opposite narrative powers in the novels at first glance, they in fact represented the experiences of female interaction with the structure of social values. They also represented the split self-images of female writers contending with the authority as well as the close relationship between them and feminine writing. Hence, Mirjam's junior novels mirrored her own life experiences.
Nevertheless, Mirjam put much emphasis on shaping female roles, constructing the atmosphere of female sentiments, and portraying the mother-daughter relationship. She established the feminine center viewpoint in order to strengthen the existence of feminine subjectivity; nonetheless, shaping the role of fathers seemed weak by contrast and fell into a convention. This then unintentionally revealed the blind points hidden in the viewpoints and showed the breakthrough and limitations of feminine writing.
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