| 英文摘要 |
Family narratives in millennial women’s essays foreground gender, embodied perception, foodways, and material culture as significant traces that prompt reflections on one’s own existence. This emerging trend deserves critical attention. Focusing on the discursive position of millennial essayist Chiang Ya-Ni, this article examines her composite subjectivity that traverses mass-media platforms. Chiang’s dual roles as author and woman are foregrounded in her public professional image, including her production of the radio program“Nishuo Book, Wo Shuo Ke,”and her column“Reading Women Writers”on the feminist website Womany. These engagements illuminate the discursive conditions confronting contemporary women writers in the sphere of cultural production. The second part of this article turns to Chiang’s series of texts—Please Log In to the Game, Writing You, and I Told You, Don’t Tell Others—to explore her matrilineal writing. Through the second-person address“you,”Chiang links familial experience with literary reflection, constructing a mother’s figure via a playful aesthetic and a strategy of double concealment. By deliberately withholding narrative transparency and deploying fragmented storytelling, she gradually reveals the contours of personal lineage. In these works, lineage becomes embedded in the recurrent motifs of“game,”“time,”and“memory,”thereby mapping a distinctive Chiang-style mother-daughter relational topology. Her writing opens new possibilities for family narratives by millennial women authors in a multicultural era. |