A Study of Fen-Ling Zhou’s Queer Writing

• Main Authors: Yu-Tan Hsiao, 蕭幼丹
• Other Authors: Feng-Huang Ying
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12722869524953811987

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 台灣文化研究所 === 98 === Fen-Ling Zhou emerged as an essayist in the literary arena. The theme and content of her works convey Zhou’s strong feminism characteristics. Under the pressure of social ethic and gender differences, mainstream paternal authority deflects female essayists to write with the impression of positive female virtues. Her early works were innocent and unique, and were categorized as literature of Chinese maiden, which also conformed social expectations on literature forms. Zhou got married but went through paternal authority. She was divorced however social exclusion made her helpless. She knew very well how it felt like to be excluded from the society such as queers and psychotic patients. With that life experience, Zhou started her feminist writing. Facing mainstream paternal authority and heterosexual marriage system, she decided to defend with her writing, which led her to compose in a very different style. Zhou’s writing illustrated her life experience and presented different aspects of women’s life in her true or make up stories. This thesis began from the point view of queers, which well interpreted Zhou’s thought on queers. It studied Zhou’s writing styles, which were essayistic and novelistic interlaced. She created the possibilities of flowing gender and sexual orientation change. This thesis also discovered how Zhou expressed her ideas by writing topics such as self, social exclusion, and queers. She used her works to propagate her thoughts and constructed her Utopia of gender equality.