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題 名 | "Great Mother," the Dream Journey, and the Search for Utopia in Three Ming-Qing Novels |
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作 者 | 吳燕娜; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 27:4 民86.夏 |
頁 次 | 頁477-523 |
分類號 | 820 |
關鍵詞 | 水滸傳; 醒世姻緣傳; 紅樓夢; 女媧; 西王母; 警幻仙姑; 觀音菩薩; 九天玄女; Great mother; Archetypal feminine; Shuihu zhuan; Xingshi yinyuan zhuan; Honglou meng; Matriarchy; Nuwa; Androgynous; Xi Wang Mu; Queen mother of the west; Jinghuan xiangu; Fairy disenchantment; Guanyin pusa; Bodhisattva avalokitesvara; Jiutian xuannu; The mystic goddess of the ninth heaven; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | The Great Mother concept existed in indigenous Chinese mythology and Taoist beliefs, and was later combined with the buddhist bodhisattva ideal. The image of the Great mother in China developed its own characteristics as a result of the adaptations to Chinese society and culture. This paper discusses some of these characteristics as represented in certain episodes of Water Margin, Marriage As Retribution, Awakening the World, and Dream of the Red Chamber. Although there was no solid evidence that matriarchy existed in ancient China, or that ordinary women directly exercised power in the public sphere, women were still influential and powerful in some realms of everyday life. Representations of the Great Mother in these three novels stress the maternal roles of nurturing and protection. The Great Mothers are also represented as “androgynous” and performing “paternal” roles in offering instruction, discipline, and even punishment. Besides functioning as paternal figures, they convey other knowledge about life on subjects such as love, procreation, sexual restraint, and the nourishing of life. They thus contribute to both nurture and culture. Embedded in the contexts of three novels which demonstrate ambivalence in their representation of women, the Great Mothers convey the authors' conceptions of ideal womanhood, anxiety about their own identity and culture, and wishful thinking about a utopia generated the Great Mother. |
本系統中英文摘要資訊取自各篇刊載內容。