| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 外國語文學系 === 91 === This thesis explores the diasporic issues that embody a broadly conceived theme─the relation between diaspora, space, city,and modernity─in In the Skin of a Lion. My research builds on the radical possibility of opening the bounded spaces socially and spatially. From this perspective, I focus on the spatial practices of the displaced immigrants in which the processes of reproducing social identity and the bounded spaces are analyzed. This thesis inquires into the many divergent perceptions of the diaspora with its relevant representations of the spatial embodiment, the reproduction of social spaces, and the dynamic expression of modernity.
My study places a high premium on the ideas of the hybrid geography and the alternative urban reality crystallized through the process of negotiating cultural differences of
the diasporas. In the light of the diaspora theories on space and identity, I analyze In the Skin of a Lion as a cardinal representation of the hybrid urban reality and the creativity of the diaspora spaces with the photographic approach. By reading the diasporic histories as the experiences of modernity, this research underlines the representations of a multiple viewpoints rendered by the movements of the diasporas and the practices of spatial interpenetrations. Based on the relation between the diasporic issues and the spatial
expression, I conclude that this novel excavates the alternative reality of the displaced immigrants and the city enlightened by a revisionary knowledge of Others.
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