客家文學再探究：從三位台灣客家作家筆下的女性形象談起

Reconsidering Hakka Literature from the Images of Women by Three Taiwan Hakka Writers

文學在建構人們對於現實、社會現象、甚至是族裔屬性的認知深具影響。客家族裔與文學的關聯向來緊密，台灣客家族群正如世界上其他的族裔般，藉由文學的力量自我表達與自我形塑。本文探討三位台灣客家作家—吳濁流、鍾理和、鍾肇政－筆下的女性形象，藉以分析少數族裔刻版印象化議題，並重新審視對於客家文學的理解，解析客家特色的迷思，進而強調除了應重視個別作品的獨特性，以開放的態度欣賞文學作品的豐富性，亦應認知客家文學多元與持續發展的本質，故主張對於客家文學的了解應更具包容性。

Literature influences our conceptualization of reality and various aspects of society, including ethnicity. Hakka as an ethnicity has always been interconnected with literature. Hakka in Taiwan, not unlike many other ethnic groups around the world, expresses and reshapes itself through literature. This paper studies the presentation of female characters by three Hakka writers in Taiwan, Wu Cho-Liu, Chung Li-ho, and Chung Chao-cheng. While reexamining the controversial issue of ethnic minorities stereotyping, the paper reconsiders what Hakka literature is. It concludes that our understanding of Hakka literature should move beyond expectations of distinctive features of Hakka culture to a more inclusive and diverse perspective.