碩士 / 國立臺北教育大學 / 台灣文化研究所 / 104 / Based on My Memories of Old Beijing by Lin Haiyin, The Lost Golden Bell by Hualing Nieh Engle and The Reverberating Notes by Tsu Chung-Pei, this dissertation aims to study differences between autobiographical novels and autobiographical writing to see how this three female writers in patriarchal societies displayed constructing female subjective consciousness and the pursuit of self-identification by writing their own experiences into the three texts. The reasons for choosing the three writers as research subjects are that they have similar life experiences and their novels are commonly regards as autobiographies of depicting their life stories.
Firstly, the study focused on autobiographical writing of novels and two issues occurred with discourse analysis on autobiographical writing: (1) The novels intermingled fact with fiction by the writers’ own memories; (2) the writers created novels in their own perspectives. In addition, since the three novels were written from the first-person perspective, it later discussed relationships among space, the place and ‘My’ memories of the writers followed by difficulties the female protagonists of the autobiographical novels easily met in terms of marriage and education because they passively accepted norms by patriarchy. Besides, it studied that the protagonists reversed female social status in the processes of female growth under the traditional male-dominated environment so that readers could review stories from the female narrative angle unlike males’.
Next, it made further talks closely around traditional thoughts and family status of their mothers in the texts, discussing if the protagonists as mothers were deeply influenced by restrictions of traditional concept or subconsciously imitated their mothers; how the protagonists reversed images of traditional women by long-term effects of their mothers; how the protagonists changed the status in patriarchal societies and became the head of a family under sex-role reversal environment that the fathers or male characters in the texts did not play leading role with no voice in the families.
Compared traditional men's autobiographies with women's autobiographies, the study found that women's autobiographies provide a new narrative from the different angle to readers and put emphasis on family values instead of social values so that women's autobiographies could improve drawbacks of male literature by this innovative way.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NTPT0625018 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Ming-Fang Ku, 古茗芳 |
| Contributors | Feng-Huang Ying, 應鳳凰 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 93 |
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