釉裂․居家：十九世紀拼布故事中的生活書寫

Craze╱Domesticity: Daily Life Illustration in Nineteenth Century Quilt Stories

本論文試圖構築一個拼布技藝與短篇故事解讀之互動平台。全文主要從三篇美國 十九世紀後期發表的短篇故事出發，與拼布織品共構論述界面，自當時最受歡迎的拼 布樣式──瘋狂拼布（crazy quilt）出發，從三篇以女性為主要敘事中心、且與瘋狂拼布 相關的短篇故事，討論其日常生活中所交織的莫名、突然的偶發事件，進而與瘋狂拼布的釉裂（craze）相呼應，並印證拼布故事中關於日常生活的敘事和偶發事件之描繪， 可為二十世紀女權大鳴大放之開端。

This paper intends to construct an interacting platform between quilt the craftsmanship and interpretative perspectives in nineteenth century American short stories. Three short stories published in the late nineteenth century are selected to seek for further interweaving and interconnection. The paper firstly talks about one of the most popular quilt patterns, crazy quilt. Next, the paper asserts the interaction between the daily life narrative and incidents in three selected stories and the craze patterns in crazy quilt. By so doing, this paper expounds the importance of the daily life issues in quilt stories of the nineteenth century may be the prologue of the women liberation of the next century