性別自覺：商晚筠的女同志話語建構

Gender Consciousness: Shang Wanyun's Construction of Dyke Discourse

曾有學者以「沉睡」形容東南亞華文女作家的女性意識，然而，首位於臺灣獲小說獎的馬來西亞留臺生——商晚筠的女性意識卻不曾「沉睡」，並於女同志書寫熱潮前已經初試啼聲。本文藉由「女性主義」視角，以商晚筠小說中被馬華文學評論界忽視的女性意識書寫為研究主軸，審視商晚筠如何在話語層面上超越男性中心樊籬，憑藉同性之愛的獨特題材建構女性的敘述權威。本文分為五節，前言說明建構女性話語的意義；正文厘清女同志書寫的定義、探討與分析商晚筠女同小說的書寫策略及特色；最後總結商晚筠建構女同性話語的意義。

The level of feminist consciousness among Malaysian-Chinese female writers is perceived as comparatively low. The late Malaysian novelist Shang Wanyun is a notable exception. She created female characters from both rural and urban landscapes while examining and reflecting on the difficult process of the individual woman's spiritual growth and personality development. Unfortunately, the strong female consciousness in her works had mostly been neglected in literary criticism. This essay is an attempt to rediscover it under the guidance of feminist theory, by virtue of the perspective of the equality between men and women and the basis of connotation and denotation. It investigates Shang Wanyun's intention to subvert patriarchal ideology by constructing new female discourse in the area of lesbianism.