The Study of Women’s Voice in Contempoary Taiwan and Japanese Literature : Taking Lai Xiang-Yin ‘s “the Translator” and Tsushima Yuko’s “Amariniyabanna” as the central focuses

• Main Authors: Yu-Ning Chen, 陳昱甯
• Other Authors: 張文薰
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56073138505297870020

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 100 === This thesis , featuring on two novels in contemporary Taiwan and Japan, Taiwanese writer Lai Xiang-Yin ‘s “the Translator” and Japanese writer Tsushima Yuko’s “Amariniyabanna,” aims to discuss the women’s voice in Taiwan Literature. Both of the novels mention “voice” in the text, and there are also women speaking out for the elder generation in the storylines. Hence, first I will review the theories dealing with women’s voice: the Feminist Narratology, gender discourses and literary theories as to create a method to discuss the women’s voice in the texts. In “the Translator,” the actor is silent vocally while her inner voice never stops. By this comparison, though losing the oral speaking, the women’s inner voices do not be repressed by patriarchy. And “Amariniyabanna” reveals three kinds of women’s voices in the text, the Japanese woman living in Taiwan in colonial period, the woman with a child passed away as well as the women’s point of view of the “Wushe Incident.” By analyzing the letters, diaries and the utterance in the novel, women’s voice appear clearly without the bother from patriarchy. In conclusion, in this two texts, instead of resistance, women’s voices show their reflection toward the Nationalism / patriarchy .