| 题名 |
Detecting a Historical Transition in Taiwan Feminist Fiction Reading "The Net" and "A Place of One's Own" |
| DOI |
10.6999/DHJCS.200302.0105 |
| 作者 |
史亮(Liang Shi) |
| 关键词 |
The Net ； Ouyang Zi ； A Place of One's Own ； Taiwan feminist movement ； Taiwan fiction ； Yuan Qiongqiong |
| 期刊名称 |
東華漢學 |
| 卷期/出版年月 |
1期（2003 / 02 / 01） |
| 页次 |
105 - 124 |
| 内容语文 |
英文 |
| 英文摘要 |
This article analyzes two short stories by Taiwan women writers to trace the evolvement of the feminist movement between the 1960s and the 1980s. ”The Net”網(1961) by Ouyang Zi and ”A Place of One's Own”自己的天空(198O) by Yuan Qiongqiong both present a moment of revelation through a crisis faced by their main female characters. Yu Wenqin in ”The Net” and Jingmin in ”A Place of One's Own” find themselves in a position to break away from a patriarchal marriage. While Yu Wenqin, who initiates the challenge to the status quo, fails because of her surrendering to her husband's dominance, Jingmin, who is involuntarily thrown into the crisis, chooses to leave her husband and embarks on a venture for independence. The irony is that between the two characters, Yu Wenqin is the one who possesses more modern personality traits. In comparison, Jingmin represents the traditional weak and submissive female. The differences in their characters, as well as in the paths each chooses in the crisis, testify to the progress of the feminist movement and to the changes in the social environment for women in Taiwan during this period. In the end, however, Jingmin's breakthrough does not entitle her to claim a complete victory for gender equality, just like Yu Wenqin's unsuccessful-but equally heroic-challenge should not be considered a total failure for the women of her generation. |
| 主题分类 |
人文學 >
人文學綜合 人文學 > 歷史學 人文學 > 語言學 人文學 > 中國文學 |
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