Return and Reconstruction- On the Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Taiwanese Prose of Chen Chien and Fen-Ling Chou

• Main Authors: Liao, Luchi, 廖祿基
• Other Authors: Chang, Bingyang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68712876546217445543

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 台灣文化研究所 === 99 === This thesis, entitled ‘Return and Reconstruction’, focuses on both the universality and difference of female subjectivity pursued in the prose writings of Chen Chien and Fen-Ling Chou. More generally, it studies the search for, development and cultivation of female subjectivity by Taiwanese women in the 80s and 90s. Works by these women writers reveal the obstacles confronted, both self-imposed and from the outside, and breakthroughs achieved, both as a subject and a woman, in the pursuit self-identity and process of self-identification. The body of the thesis is of three-fold. Chapter Two analyzes on how their works unfolds the various stages of becoming women- through puberty, friendship among women, romance and marriage, motherhood, self-realization- and delineates the process and transformation female subjectivity within these living experiences of women. Secondly, from the tripartite perspectives of motherhood writing, sexual writing, and historical writing, Chapters Three and Four discuss the construction and identity formation of female subjectivity in their prose. Chapter Five situates these works within the framework of narrative type and discusses how the women writers realize self-identity through authobiographical narrative and memory narrative. This thesis aims to evoke the female identity in the prose by women writers and elevate female subjectivity from the horizon of history, thereby offering an alternative to author-based and topic-based and linguistic art approaches in the discourse on the history of women literature.