Concerto of Life and Belief-A Study of Tai-Ying Xu and her novels

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Lan Li, 李曉蘭
• Other Authors: Da-Yun Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72917601056981229355

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 中國文學系碩博士班 === 94 === This thesis has seven chapters. It aims to comment and analyze Tai-Ying Xu’s novels and tries to define the achievement of her works in the position as well as significance in Taiwanese literature. In this thesis, chapter 1 is the introduction. Chapter 2 records the writer’s lifetime, background and her viewpoints about writing. Chapter 3 discusses the feminine issue of her novel. Chapter 4 initiates from the diasporic complex and national thought revealed in Tai-Ying Xu’s novels. It researches the national identity and confusion of the second generation of Mainlanders. It further realizes that Tai-Ying Xu wants to search for the course of the destination in heaven homeland through the writing and description. Chapter 5 focuses on the context of Tai-Ying Xu’s religious literature representative works “Six letters to Sister En-Ping”, trying to discuss religion writing and writing therapy. In analyzing the author’s such writing of religious spirit as “emotional dilemma and struggle” and “repentance and redemption”, I affirm her concern about “human” literature creation mission as a Catholic writer. Chapter 6 mentions the types of special characters in Tai-Ying Xu’s novels and prove her viewpoints of creation. The conclusion of this thesis confirms the orientation of Tai-Ying Xu’s novels in the history of Taiwanese literature as follows: In the views of feminism, Tai-Ying Xu presents the female intellectuals’ conflict and struggle between modernization and tradition. In the viewpoints of the diasporic complex writing, Tai-Ying Xu first opens up the style of deducing individual cultural identification through the journey of root exploration, trying to locate a new identification and value of cultural identity for the second generation of Mainlanders. In terms of religious writing, Tai-Ying Xu writes in an on-looking, sympathetic and realistic style to present the religious experience which most religion writers have never described. To sum up, being a female writer as the second generation of mainlander as well as a religious Catholic, Tai-Ying Xu plays an unique and original role in her creation of novels.