A Study of the Childhood Writings of Ch`i Chun and Hai-yin Lin / 琦君、林海音童年書寫研究

碩士 / 國立中山大學 / 中國文學系研究所 / 103 / The research motivation is to study how two significant female writers in the fifties, Ch`i Chun and Hai-Yin Lin, resolved inner female anxiety resulting from conflict and insecurity of mind and body after moving to Taiwan. The aim to explore their childhood writings is to understand how the two female writers examined their own childhood, interpreted hometown, and defined value of women autonomy.
The thesis intends to start from the influence of “patriarchy” in education and personality in the two writer s’ childhood and further analyze their domestic life in terms of father and daughter, mother and daughter relationship extending from “patriarchy”, followed by how the two female writers expose traditional mothers’ silence by interpreting “patriarchy” in childhood writings. Another focus is the construction from “home” to “hometown”: it begins with the family space experienced by females, which quotes the illustration of house space in The Poetic of Space by Gaston Bachelard, the control of patriarchy extension in Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison by Michel Foucault, and the exploration of female body geography in Gender, Identity and Place by Linda McDowell to explain the relationship and symbol of body and power in spaces. Last, “cultural geography” is applied to recreate the two female writers’ identity and a sense of belonging toward “hometown”, interpret their value of “childhood living space” and “hometown reproduction.” With words, old Zhejiang and Peiping are reconstructed to render what these spaces mean to female self-identity.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NSYS5045046
Date January 2015
CreatorsHsing-yao Ho, 何星瑤
ContributorsJen-nien Chai, 蔡振念
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format146

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