國立台灣師範大學研究所碩士論文提要
研究所別：英國語文研究所
論文名稱：隱無的論述：林露德之《木魚之歌》中族群對話的探討
指導教授：莊坤良 博士
研究生：黃惠翎
《木魚之歌》可視為作者文學創作與亞美文學的突破。它不但結合了性別與種族的議題於後殖民論述中﹐它也試圖擴展了亞美文學的視野。藉由置放了不同種族的聲音在文本中﹐林露德將此小說設計成ㄧ巴赫汀系統。其中﹐三種敘述聲音時而呼應時而相互矛盾。三個敘述者以一華裔移民的故事為主軸﹐編織出一個被刻意遺忘的異鄉魂的一生。此外﹐他們也娓娓道來自己的故事並提供了不同族裔在那大時代的歷史背景。敘述中充滿了的矛盾與衝突﹐凸顯了各種意識形態與觀點的侷限與差異。藉由之中的碎裂點與斷層面﹐作者讓隱藏的文本彰顯自己﹐並將小說編構成隱無的交響曲。此一策略性隱無的論述之運用﹐開啟了族裔間的對話﹐進而為後殖民的議題提供了更深層面的辯證。此論文將藉由《木魚之歌》中隱無的論述探索作者對東方論述與西方人道主義的批判﹐藉此我們也將了解到個體在顛沛離散中所面臨文化雜化的必然性及所可能產生的認同危機。此外﹐論文中也意圖彰顯作者對檢視瀰漫在當代社會父權的迷思之企圖﹐並解釋了阻礙女性主權與相互溝通管道的要因。文中三位敘述者好似各唱著他們自己的木魚之歌；但那互相唱和的歌聲卻道出了霸權文化中被消音覆蓋的故事。藉由這些隱無的歌曲﹐論文引出作者探究弱小族群所可能運用的抵抗之力量﹐並提供了讀者一個重新檢視亞美文學的批判觀點。

Abstract
Wooden Fish Songs can be regarded as a breakthrough of the author’s own literary creation as well as a new vision of Asian American literature. It complicates colonial themes with gender and race issues; what’s more, it widens the scope of Asian American experiences. By juxtaposing voices of different races, McCunn designs the novel into a Bakhtinian system, in which three narratives complement and contradict each other. The three narrators center on a historical figure whose story used to be deliberately forgotten and erased; their witnesses map out the fragmentary history of this diasporic soul. On the other hand, the three female narrators tell stories of their own, which provide historical backgrounds of different peoples in the same age. Their narratives, however, are full of contradictions and paradoxes; the ruptures and disassociations among each discourse manifest the limitation of individual ideology and perspective. By playing on gaps among discourses, McCunn lets the absent texts speak themselves and thus orchestrates the novel into a symphony of stories of absence. The strategic utilization of discourse of absence initiates interethnic dialogues, which in consequence provide a deeper level of exploration for different issues. Drawing on the discourse of absence, this thesis is to explore the author’s critical thinking on such postcolonial themes as fallacies of Orientalism and Western humanism and dilemma of cultural hybridization. It also intends to expose the phallocentric nature of patriarchy which deprives women of subjectivity and their mutual understanding toward each other. The three narrators are seemly singing their own wooden fish songs; but their echoing voices articulate the inarticulate texts in hegemonic cultures. Through the songs of absence, McCunn not only probes for subversive powers of minority discourses against hegemonic cultures but also offers a new perspective to envision Asian American literature.

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