| Abstract: | 長久以來，女性主義文評家不斷記載性別與空間的建構以顛覆性別二元論的概念， 也強調作品裡女性與空間的微妙關係。性別二元論始終深植在西班牙文學與文化之傳 統。男性則代表「時間」的原動力，女性則被塑造為「空間」；男性自在的移動於不同 的空間，女性卻大多侷限在有限的居家場域。 本計劃以文本分析為起點，探討作品的空間意象、空間屬性(地形學空間、精神場 域、肉體空間)與特質、女性人物、空間(城市/鄉鎮)與女性身體的關聯、權利與空間的 論述及女性自我認同的危機與主體價值的建構等層面。本計劃以性別與空間之主題來詮 釋西班牙當代四位暢銷女作家的作品，擴展文學與文化研究的運用，有架構性地探討西 班牙女性小說的創作脈絡，將豐富西班牙文學評論的研究成果。 本次計劃將以三年期方式執行。第一年以羅多雷達(Mercè Rodoreda)的兩本經典暢 銷小說－《迪亞曼德廣場》(La plaza del Diamante) (1962)與《卡美利雅街》(La calle de las Camelias) (1966)為例，探討作者如何運用空間的對比意象再現女主角建構女性主體的認 同。第二年研究馬丁凱德(Carmen Martín Gaite)的得獎作品《窗簾後》(Entre visillos) (1958) 及《後房》(El cuarto de atrás) (1978)，探討空間造成監禁與逃脫的相互關聯及女性意識 的成長。第三年則研究新生代女作家葛蘭黛絲(Almudena Grandes)的成名作品《露露》 (Las edades de Lulú) (1989)及艾絲德瓦莉亞(Lucía Extebarria)的小說《梅雅德利絲與天 體》(Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes) (1998)，探討兩位作家如何以「性」之名探索女性身 體私處（親密空間）的奧妙與虛無，又大都會的消費文化空間如何造成女主角的孤寂、 疏離感及自我流放。
Over time feminist literary critics have chronicled the construction of gender and space in order to challenge the widespread idea of gender binarism, and they have examined the complex relationship between female characters and space in works. Along with the history, the concept of gender binarism has been persisted in Spanish literary and cultural traditions. The masculine has been imagined as temporal dynamism and the feminine has been conceived as space; man always moves freely through space while woman is confined within it. Based on textual analysis, the present project will be centered on the study of spatial images in texts, spatial categories (topographical space, spiritual space, physical space) and characteristics, female characters, the connection between space (city/country) and the female body, the discourse of power, the crisis of women’s self identity and the construction of female subjectivity. The project aims to explore gender and space as central themes to study the texts by four popular women writers of contemporary Spain, and it expands the research of literature and cultural studies, constructively investigates the writing style of Spanish women’s novels. This will also enrich the research achievement on Spanish literary criticism. This project will be conducted in three years. In the first year, La plaza del Diamante (1962) and La calle de las Camelias (1966), two masterpieces by Mercė Rodoreda, will be analyzed. I will study how Rodoreda used the contrasting spatial images to represent the construction of female subjectivity. In the second year, Entre visillos (1958) and El cuarto de atrás (1978) by Carmen Martín Gaite will be studied. I will explore how space reveals the connection between confinement, escape and the growth of female consciousness. In the third year, Las edades de Lulú (1989) by Almudena Grandes and Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes (1998) by Lucía Extebarria will be examined. I will study how these two writers explore the female body (intimate space) in the name of sex/sexuality, and how the consuming cultural space in the modern metropolis causes female characters’ loneliness, alienation and self exile. |
