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Title: | 論多麗絲·萊辛《野草在唱歌》中的創傷政治 On the Politics of Trauma in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing |
Authors: | Yu-Hsuan Shen 沈聿宣 |
Advisor: | 廖勇超(Yung-Chao Liao) |
Keyword: | 多麗絲‧萊辛,《野草在唱歌》,創傷,強迫性重複,性別壓迫,種族壓迫,南羅德西亞, Doris Lessing,The Grass Is Singing,trauma,repetition compulsion,gender oppression,racial oppression,Southern Rhodesia, |
Publication Year : | 2020 |
Degree: | 碩士 |
Abstract: | 多麗絲‧萊辛的第一本小說《野草在唱歌》圍繞著居住於南羅德西亞的白人女性瑪莉‧特納的一生,小說以瑪莉被其家僕-摩西所殺害的報紙新聞為開頭,透過描寫瑪莉的童年、婚姻及她和當地人的互動,萊辛揭露了種族、階級及性別的壓迫和衝突。雖然許多評論家已注意到瑪莉步上其母親的後塵並重複童年創傷回憶,但以創傷理論來剖析主角瑪莉的強迫性重複的研究少之又少。瑪莉身兼受害者及加害者的身分複雜且值得探討,而詮釋她的創傷能更進一步研究她矛盾的身份,除此之外,透過創傷理論能更加理解社會結構如何造成瑪莉的強迫性重複,以及她的創傷如何揭露父權及殖民意識形態的問題。這篇論文以探討萊辛小說中的創傷政治為目標,將研究瑪莉的強迫性重複是如何和南羅德西亞的性別不平等及種族歧視勾勒在一起,並進一步發掘小說描寫瑪莉創傷的倫理價值。此論文分為三個部分,第一章節介紹創傷理論,爬梳精神分析理論、性別研究、殖民理論如何看待創傷及發展其創傷概念,並且討論見證在創傷中的功能與倫理角色。第二章分析瑪莉的童年、婚姻、夢境及精神狀態,進而說明她的宿命型神經官能症、夢魘及歇斯底里。最後一章則深入研究小說情節如何呼應南羅德西亞的社會歷史背景,幫助探討創傷和其倫理功能。藉由分析小說中的創傷政治,此論文期望能夠梳理萊辛《野草在唱歌》中性別壓迫、種族歧視及創傷在小說中所發揮的倫理功能。 Doris Lessing’s first novel The Grass Is Singing (1950) revolves around the story of Mary Turner, a white woman murdered by her houseboy Moses in Southern Rhodesia. Through depicting Mary’s life, marriage, and relationship with the natives, Lessing demonstrates the tensions in race, class, and gender. Although many critics notice that Mary suffers from her childhood memory and inevitably repeats her mother’s life, no one has yet to apply the concept of trauma to analyze Mary’s repetition compulsion. Since Mary is simultaneously a victim and perpetrator, I believe that examining her traumas can help readers understand how her traumatic repetition is induced by social structures, and how her traumas can expose the problems of patriarchy and colonialism. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the politics of trauma by investigating how Mary’s repetition compulsion relates to gender inequality and race discrimination in Southern Rhodesia, and what is the ethical function of Lessing’s depiction of Mary’s traumas. This paper is divided into three parts. The first part will investigate the notion of trauma by discussing trauma theory in the psychanalytic field, gender studies, colonial theory, and studies of witnessing. In the second part, I will analyze Mary’s childhood, marriage, dreams, and her breakdowns to elucidate these three aspects—fate neurosis, nightmares, and hysteria. The last part of the paper will explore the connection between trauma and the society by contextualizing the novel within the sociohistorical background of Southern Rhodesia. Carefully examining the politics of trauma, the thesis hopes to tease out the gender and racial oppression as well as the ethical engagement in Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing. |
URI: | http://tdr.lib.ntu.edu.tw/jspui/handle/123456789/74949 |
DOI: | 10.6342/NTU202100294 |
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