| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 98 === In this thesis, in order to discuss how the “new-generation” female writers emerge into and develop themselves in the literary scene, the author takes up the contexts of both female and urban literatures, and uses the interdisciplinary approach of “cultural geography” to explore the literary, cultural, and social backgrounds of those writers, and to discuss how literature is related to urban transformations after the 1990s, and to situate the features of local writing in the context of globalization. While urban space influences female subjectivity, female writers gain the power of interpretation through their understanding of the city. Therefore, if we are to show the relationship between female and the city, the reading of different texts dealing with “space” will be necessary. Furthermore, by reading the works of the female novelists in the 1990s, we can achieve a deeper and better comprehension of the feminist aesthetics and the relationship between feminist movement and female literature.
In the 1990s, Taipei city saw a radical cultural change: after the lifting of the martial law in the early 1990s, the city was untied from political oppressions and turned toward a multi-cultural development; then, in the middle of the 1990s, the rise of urban consciousness did not only influence the cultural governance of the city, but also formed the trends of “urban writing.” After the turn of the 21st century, with the tendency of globalization, issues of “the global” and “the local” became more and more highlighted, the problem of the city no longer arose from its interior (that is, from the awareness of its crisis), and what should be noted became its exterior: one city’s competition with another in a global context. This is the background of the transformation of literature and culture. In the 1990s, the feminist movement in Taiwan became diversified due to its members were at odds with each other, severe debates existed among female groups with different grounds, and feminists from different generations also chose different issues: therefore, the relationship between feminist movement and female literature became more complicated than ever, and the “new-generation” female writers opened up new fields of writing in the mutual influences among their own preferences of creation, cultural mechanisms of publication, and cultural spaces. Rather than just inheriting the traditions from the past, the “new-generation” female writers also found new ways to diversify their writing. The thesis is a study on five female writers: in the exploration of their process and characteristics of creation, the author hopes to gain a better understanding of how female writing is influenced by urban culture and female consciousness.
In this thesis, there are both “microanalyses” and “microanalyses” of the selected text: that is, the urban spaces as represented by the female writers will be observed from the perspective of “living space” and “urban landscape.” To begin with, the dialectics between “apartment and home” will be used to discuss the dialectical relationship between female-subject identification and the residence of females. Furthermore, the “landscapes” are female writers’ representations of the city, and the attention will be paid to how the writers use their own living experience to represent the city in various ways. While the writing techniques and strategies of the writers might be different, in this thesis, it can be shown that their writings are all centered on the living experience in the city, and a new dimension of female writing is also thus created.
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