碩士 / 國立高雄師範大學 / 國文學系 / 107 / Abstract
From 1994 to 2014, Cai Shufen spent 20 years to complete the Children of the Salt Fields trilogy. The stories took place in a seaside village. In 2012, Cai Shufen finished Seaside, a book continued from Children of the Salt Fields to recall once more the life in Qigu, a major salt production town, except the focus was placed on the seaside lagoon landscape. The lagoons were dwindling in size year after year, the ecological environment was damaged and Cai Shufen wrote the book out of the intention to retain her mental image of the lagoons. The presentation of the geographic appearance in Seaside was totally different from the conventional realistic approach adopted to produce Children of the Salt Fields. The contents were arranged to look back on the history and geography described in the two prefaces With the Back against the Sea and Windy Seaside to depict the image of the village and launch the dialectics to suggest the greatness of nature and the humbleness of humans.
This paper is separated into six chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction. Chapter 2 (A Daughter of the Sea–Cai Shufen: The Calling of Mother Sea) is divided into two sections to explore the prototype of the lagoons in the mind of the author based on the relationship between Seaside and Children of the Salt Fields and the calling of mother sea. In Chapter 3, the mythological symbols and the sea wind metaphors in With the Back against the Sea and Windy Seaside are examined to present the local history as well as the relations between people and the sea, between people and people and between people and the environment in the village to illustrate the structural arrangement in Seaside. In Chapter 4, intertextual and fantastic approaches are applied in conjunction with real and unreal aesthetic techniques to express the interwoven relations between space, time and life in Seaside. In Chapter 5 (the love and death of the characters) the female characters in Seaside are adopted to connect home, countryside and city and also to describe the journeys of growth and enlightenment of different females as they traveled between the city and countryside and experienced love and departure. The process corresponds to the journey taken by the forbears to cross the strait to move to Taiwan and the topic of death is discussed to extend the definition of homeland. Chapter 6 is the conclusion.
A diversified strategy is adopted in Seaside to depict the involvement between the mind and imagery and also to discuss the issues of where we come from and where we are going. Between the real and the unreal, humans move in the continuously reflected space and discuss the long-term definition of nature, the universe and the life and death of humans. The relations between the local gazette and the mental image of the lagoons provided the ideas for the author to explore various techniques for artistic expression and presentation of commoner images.
The Salt Fields have been shut down, the lagoons are gradually becoming silted up and the coastline is disappearing slowly. Texts are used to record childhood, beginning with the landscape. As space and memories change, the story becomes a shining pearl and will be kept forever. The three-dimensional world in Seaside is a space to be experienced and also a fictitious world to disclose the intent to create another real world.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/107NKNU0045031 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | WANG, CUI-LAN, 王翠蘭 |
| Contributors | Prof. Gong Xianzong, 龔顯宗 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 142 |
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