| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 中國文學研究所 === 106 === Due to political instability, changes of lifestyle and the rise of feminist consciousness, female writers had increased significantly in the 80’s. This leads to open-minded and diverse society in the 90’s. Till now, the line between genders is getting blurred and ambiguous, women start to reflect deeply on the issues of gender, life circumstances, and also self-development. These reflections contribute to women’s prose writing. Compared to fictional genre such as poem and novels, prose uses ordinary form of language to depict the moments of life, which emphasizes on one’s personality and life events.
This study focuses on motherhood experience and dietary writing in women’s prose after 90’s, which aims to inspect and discover the uniqueness of Taiwanese women’s related experiences. Firstly, the study reveals the theme of prose by outlining extrinsic factors such as the society, and the intrinsic such as the author’s thoughts. Then, it summarizes the context of Taiwanese motherhood writing from the 50’s to 80’s, and is later compared with the 90’s in order to examine how dietary writing shapes one’s self.
The third chapter focuses on dietary and self-development issues in women’s prose. This includes firstly, the writing of dietary, pregnancy and breastfeeding experience, which women experience roles shifting; secondly, family life and cooking as daily context in the prose; and thirdly, the extent of dietary writing which includes a wide range of issues such as environmental, health and safety. In sum, this writing reveals women’s reflection on the relation between maternal and feminine, the self and the world, also, self-realization of women in daily family life.
The changes in dietary writing in recent years is further discussed in the fourth chapter. Through the examples of Bubu Tsai’s “Little Chef: My Investment in Happiness”(蔡穎卿，《小廚師：我的幸福投資》), and Hui-Ling Yu’s “Food is the best way of parenting: 40 Love Letters for Kids”(游惠玲，《飲食是最美好的教養：給孩子的40篇美味情書》),and Nancy Wang’s “Mommy Warrior on Food Table and Home Letters”(王南琦,《戰鬥媽媽的餐桌與家書》), we can see that the writing focuses not only on women’s family life and private space, but also on the social practice which provides of nutrition education for their children. This means that women’s prose writing starts to overlap and intersect with public space, which opens a new door for dietary prose.
Dietary prose provides a whole new space for the writing of motherhood experience, moreover, it is a realm of self-realization, where women reflect and reveal their thoughts in the mosaic of private and public spaces.
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