Spatiality and the body experience in Taiwanese Women’s Fiction in ''80-''90s
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Lee, Hsiao-Han
Abstract
This presenting thesis discusses the evolution of narrative aesthetics in Taiwanese Women’s Fiction during ''80-''90s in the context of urban and female (feminist) literature. Recent researches have pointed out that a large amount of woman’s literature was also urban writing. A new generation of female writers started consciously writing about “city” from the 90’s, which suggests a close correlation between the development of feminine and urban literatures . However, many of those novels are not focusing only on the “city”, but manly on the status of women’s life through the passage between urban and rural settings. Instead of choosing between “women writing urban literatures” or “women writing rural literatures”, a question of more importance should be taken into consideration: how do these writers represent women’s surrounding environment in order to reflect their life, as the theme? In this study, “space” is the central point of observation that helps to rethink the possible intertwining correlation among “women”, “writing” and “space”. To further investigate the development of this writing phenomenon, it is necessary to start considering the changes in woman’s novels during the 80’s and 90’s, in particular focusing on the descriptions of the “body experience” and “spatiality”.
In order to clarify the development of Taiwanese women’s fiction writing, this presenting thesis would put emphasis on the fact that the feminism and urban consumption culture started rising in the 80’s and 90’s. The analysis starts from the narratological point of view of the works produced by two generations of female writers from the 80’s and 90’s: Tien-Wen Chu, Tien-Hsin Chu, Ang Li, Shu-Ching Shih, Wen-Yin Chung, Ying-Shu Cheng, Hsueh Chen and Yu-Hsiang Hao.
The second chapter of this thesis discusses the changes in the “female body” and “perception of space” in the works of 80’s and 90’s according to where and when they were published. Chapter three provides the narratological point of view for the analysis on the feminine side of works and their body images. In this thesis the phenomenological points of view in the “Phenomenology of Perception” of Merleau-Ponty and in “La Poétique de l''espace” of Bachelard, are introduced to interpret the literary implication of the connotations of the “body narration” and the “representation of space.” By combining the body spatialness of Merleau-Ponty and the “private space” point of view of Bachelard, chapter four, based on previous analysis on the narration of body to, interprets the representation of literary space and the “spatial identity” created by the “perception of body,” analyzing the aesthetics of feminine fiction produced during this period.
Subjects
女性文學
敘事學
陰性書寫
身體經驗
空間感
再現空間
SDGs
Type
thesis
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