A Study of Jewel Tasi’s Writing on Food and Beverage

• Main Authors: LIN,Ming-hsia, 林明霞
• Other Authors: 許建崑教授
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85407455567956947332

碩士 === 東海大學 === 中國文學系碩士在職專班 === 101 === Abstract Jewel Tsai is one of the food authors who are much better recognizable in the post war of Taiwan. This comes from her breaking-through viewpoints, gorgeous writing style, knowledgeable and sensitive content, as well as her dedication and passion for food and food activities. The main reason why Jewel Tsai’s food writing reveals colors, smell and taste is her conscientious and careful management and design. She has unique views on selecting topics and trimming texts, as well as wordings and skills. In addition to the use of color words, four syllabic words, and rhetoric methods, her ingenious imagination also makes Jewel Tsai’s food writing charming with defamiliarization. Therefore, her articles are usually filled with profound cultural and highly humanistic accomplishments and into her intellectual writing style permeates a sensitive atmosphere. In addition, her different topics, multi-level creativity and the integration of diverse languages, as well as the multiple cut-in visual angles agree with Mikhail Bakhtin’s heteroglossia and the postmodern diet cultural features. They make diet writing a thermometer of the social observation, not just a woman writer’s whispers in the kitchen. Jewel Tsai’s non-repeating writing style has overturned the traditional writing vision and enlarged the food’s influence from a small piece of life phase into the important issue of the whole human history and cultural development. As a contemporary writer of the diet prose, she creates more neoteric possibility and direction for Taiwan.