異質的東方想像：李昂小說中的性別暴力美學和跨國文化行銷策略──以《殺夫》（1983）、《鴛鴦春膳》（2007）為中心的文本觀察

Heterogeneous Oriental Imagination: The Aesthetics of Gendered Violence and Transnational Cultural Marketing Strategies in Li Ang's Novels - A Textual Analysis of The Butcher's Wife (1983) and Passion Foods (2007)

本文以作家李昂早期的女性主義小說作品《殺夫》，和二十一世紀之交，另一部以跨國飲食為主題的小說《鴛鴦春膳》為文本對照，探討李昂在不同的時代和國際局勢下，如何透過臺灣在地議題的形塑，使西方讀者對鄉土臺灣/中國的想像和投射，所進行的跨國書寫策略。
論文以解嚴前的小說作品《殺夫》在國際文壇上受到的熱烈反應為啟示，探究西方讀者如何透過尚未解嚴的臺灣社會，來窺視西方人所無法進入、那歷盡文化大革命摧殘後的苦難中國。尤其1980年代以德國為主的歐洲漢學界，所興起的「漢學熱」，對中國投以同情且自我曲解的異國想像與悲懷，使歐洲讀者藉由窺探「鄉土臺灣」作品中的殉難式性別暴力美學，來同理感受中國百姓在文革浩劫後的集體傷痕，而李昂的小說書寫策略，於是也回應了歐洲讀者熱切欲望神秘東方/中國的閱讀期待。
本文擇選另一部李昂在二十一世紀後創作出版，同樣也試圖呼應全球化議題的跨國飲食文學作品《鴛鴦春膳》，探討作者在建構臺灣文化主體性的同時，也兼具掌握國際讀者品味的創作途徑，分析李昂以臺灣本土獨特性，來向西方展示臺灣文化的書寫策略。

This thesis contrasts Li Ang's early feminist novel, The Butcher's Wife（殺夫）, with her later work, Passion Foods（鴛鴦春膳）, a novel centered on transnational cuisine at the turn of the twenty-first century. It explores how Li Ang, through her depiction of local Taiwanese issues in different eras and international contexts, employs transnational writing strategies that shape Western readers' imagination and projection of rural Taiwan/China.
Inspired by the enthusiastic reception of The Butcher's Wife in the international literary arena before the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, this thesis investigates how Western readers, through the lens of pre-martial law Taiwanese society, gain insight into the suffering China endured post-Cultural Revolution—a domain largely inaccessible to them. Particularly during the 1980s, the "Sinology Fever" in Europe, especially in Germany, fostered an exoticized and sympathetic imagination of China, marked by self-misinterpretation. This phenomenon led European readers to empathize with the collective scars of the Chinese people after the Cultural Revolution by exploring the martyr-like gender violence aesthetics in Taiwanese rural literature. Li Ang's writing strategy thus catered to the eager Western desire to glimpse the mysterious Orient/China.
The thesis also selects Li Ang's later work, The aphrodisiac banquet, published in the twenty-first century, which similarly attempts to address globalization issues through transnational culinary literature. It examines how the author, while constructing Taiwan's cultural identity, simultaneously caters to the tastes of international readers. This analysis highlights Li Ang's strategy of showcasing Taiwan's cultural uniqueness to Western audiences.