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Title: | 「茶仙子」:伊麗莎白・蓋斯凱爾與陳玉慧小說中的女性和茶文化 “The Fairy of Tea”: Women and Tea Culture in Elizabeth Gaskell and Yu-hui Chen |
Authors: | Yao Hsiao 蕭瑤 |
Advisor: | 吳雅鳳(Ya-feng Wu) |
Keyword: | 茶,食物研究,伊麗莎白?蓋斯凱爾,陳玉慧,自我身份認同,社會階級, Tea,Food studies,Elizabeth Gaskell,Yu-hui Chen,Self-identity,Social Class, |
Publication Year : | 2019 |
Degree: | 碩士 |
Abstract: | 本論文探討茶在伊麗莎白・蓋斯凱爾的小說《北與南》(1854)和陳玉慧的《幸福之葉》(2014)中如何影響女性建立身份認同。如食物研究學者所做的,本研究偏重討論小說中的茶在台灣(中國)及英國的文化背景之下所扮演的角色和其對女性角色的影響。雖然此二本小說寫於不同的世代,故事也設定在不同的地方,卻都發生在十九世紀下半。隨著全球貿易的興盛,茶同時扮演著兩種角色:每日的必需品及在市場上極有利潤的商品。在此情形下,茶在公共和私人領域中都有極大的影響力,除了能調解性別、階級和國族之間的差異,亦能建立女性的自我身份認同。在茶文化已臻成熟的英國和台灣(中國),小說中的女主角們藉由泡茶或做茶能夠發展自我身份認同;而在某種程度下,甚至能夠提升她們在社會上的地位,甚而影響男性角色和社會發展。藉由檢視茶和女性之間的合作,本論文提出茶不僅作為一個飲料或商品,而是擁有自己的文化意涵和論述。 This thesis investigates tea’s roles and its influences on the formation of women’s identities in Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1854 novel North and South and Yu-hui Chen’s 2014 novel The Merry Leaf. By focusing on tea as food, commodity, and ritual, I explore tea’s different cultural representations in England, China, and Taiwan, and intend to illustrate the significant contribution of tea to the development of women’s self-identities. Although written in different eras and set in opposite corners of the world, both stories happen in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when global trade was thriving. In this way, tea as a valuable commodity and a daily necessity plays a significant role in people’s daily life. By playing double roles, tea wields its power in both the public and private spheres to temporarily elide boundaries between genders, classes and nations, and to construct women’s self-identities. Through being responsible for making or producing tea, the female protagonists are provided with the chance to develop their own self-identities and to a certain extent elevate their status in society. Women are given the dominant power in the tea-related places such as tea tables and tea mountains in English and Chinese tea cultures. This thesis offers a closer look at tea’s established discourse in the late nineteenth century context by examining tea’s involvement in women’s cultivation of new identities. |
URI: | http://tdr.lib.ntu.edu.tw/jspui/handle/123456789/73047 |
DOI: | 10.6342/NTU201901474 |
Fulltext Rights: | 有償授權 |
Appears in Collections: | 外國語文學系 |
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