田野紀錄──性別再現與認同建構：1980-1990年代台灣女性作家作品的內在獨白與間接∕直接引語

Field Notes – Gender Representations and Identity Building: Interior Monologue and Reported Speech in 80s-90s Taiwan Women Writers' Works

Gender representations and feminism in Taiwan women writings have received considerable scholarly attention over the past two decades, with the publication of several anthologies, collective works and monographies published in Taiwan and abroad, 1 and the development of many research centers focused on gender studies and feminism. In addition, scholars have widely discussed Taiwan women writers' contribution to literary feminism and how their works have been influenced by both Western feminist thinking, the women's movement in Taiwan, as well as by local critical essays and reflections by Taiwanese scholars and theorists (Ku, 1999). However, if women writers' works have so far been scrutinized from many perspectives including gender and symbolism, gender and subjectivity, gender and national identity, or gender and historical memory, these perspectives mostly stem from a thematic rather than linguistic point of view. For example, among the wealth of scholarly articles devoted to Li Ang's works, only a few touch briefly on the subject of reported speech and interior monologue, only accounting for their presence in the texts without delving into linguistic analysis (Benešová, 2015; Chiu, 2008). A few more detailed accounts show briefly how interior monologue can serve as a narrative strategy allowing the main protagonist to gain agency and express gender views (Chao, 2012), or as narrative patterns that take the reader along self-consciously cyclical lines to link reification of the erotic and materialist culture (Hillenbrand, 2005; Peng, 1995). However, I argue, more detailed analysis is needed to understand fully the whole range of purposes that these narrative techniques can serve in the writings of Taiwanese women writers, and how these practices evolve before and after the lifting of the martial law.