甘為他者盤飧：馬夏．諾曼《晚安，媽》劇中之自殺以求重生

Eaten by the Other: Killing to Call for Resurrection in Marsha Norman's 'Night, Mother

This paper argues that Jessie in Marsha Norman's night, Mother re-inscribes her existence under oppressive social relations by submitting to the Other, by which I mean death. By putting death on the highest rung of the ladder of exchange value, Jessie finds it the only place where dignity can be obtained. The paper, illustrating the internal and external agencies of the Other that consumes Jessie, argues that, in embracing the Other (the death), she puts herself at the summit of the great chain of being, where the unexchangeable value of dignity restores her dilapidated subjectivity. The internal agency of the Other that eats Jessie from within comes from Jessie's epilepsy, which stands in her way to construct subjectivity. The external agencies of the Other have something to do with Jessie's status as a consumer, if not as an all-time prey. To survive, Jessie puts herself on the summit of the chain to regain her subjectivity and dignity.