從瑪格麗特．艾特伍德的「貓眼」中，我們觀察到複雜扞格的風貌。
本作品之歷史性敘事再現了女主角不堪的過往，另一方面卻又彰顯後現代
主義式的意圖，希冀解構模擬論和文類疆界。自女性主義角度觀之，「貓
眼」成功地瓦解了二元對立：它既成就了極富政治意義的女性自我再現，
也堅守反「本質論」的立場，嘗試解構性別機制。本論文築基於後現代主
義與女性主義的論辯，企圖觀照「貓眼」中之後現代僭越，其縱跨文類以
及政治軫域之野心。 第一章為導論，簡述後現代主義與女性主義喧嘈
又諧和的對話。二者均意欲解構父權象徵體系，卻在性別認同上持不同觀
點。第二章探討本小說如何翻轉自傳這個文類，挑戰人文主義以降鞏固的
主體性。自傳如何成為霸權式的典範？而女性主義者又如何僭用之？此外
，「貓眼」即為一女性主義巧妙僭用自傳的成功範例，同時解／構了這個
文類。在第三章中，探討重點為艾特伍德以女性主義作家的身份如何運用
後現代諧仿策略。她籍著文字敘事和視覺藝術敘事的交纏，藉以突顯再現
機制的虛構性。同時，「貓眼」卻又運用再現記載銘刻女性傳統上受到父
權再現機制排拒並利用的命運。本章的理論架構倚重賀綺恩和依希格蕊的
論述。第四章則針對作者對性別議題之探討。而性別亦為女性自我再現之
重要面向。巴特勒及特若緹絲就父權建構之性別迷思提出了解構式的批判
。挪用此二家之觀點，本章之解讀針對女主角面對社會性別角色之特有的
流動心態加以分析，並強調她最終與生活周遭之女性和刻板女性角色的雙
重認同。

In Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, we observe the contradictory
presentation ofboth a historic narration of a woman's miserable
past and a postmodern attemptto deconstruct mimesis and
generic boundaries. In terms of feminism, thenovel also
provides us with a successful example as at once a politically
sig-nificant performance of female representation and an anti-
essentialist enter-prise to deconstruct gender. This thesis,
based upon the theoretical frame-work of the postmodernism /
feminism debates, attempts to illuminate thenovel's
postmodern crossing of the boundaries of political and generic
catego-rizations. Chapter One, the introduction,
concerns itself with theconflicting dialogue between
postmodernism and feminism. I have explicatedtheir shared
attempts to deconstruct the symbolic logic and the differences
intheir attitudes towards the problem of gender. The focus
of chapter two isupon the novel's deconstruction of the genre
of autobiography and its ensuedchallenge of the humanist
bourgeois subjecthood. A simple introduction of thepriviledged
canon is followed by an exposition of the appropriation of
thegenre by feminist critics. Cat's Eye is also read as a
feminist appropriationof autobiography, both an enactment and
defacement of the genre. My primaryconcern in chapter three
has been on the postmodern parody adopted by thefeminist
writer in the novel. Atwood's postmodern play with
mimesis isepitomized by her use of the intersected narratives of
literature and visualart. The novel also represents woman's
historically assigned role as bothalienated from and used by
the patriarchal specularization. The theories ofLinda
Hutcheon and Luce Irigaray are used as the backbone of my
interpretationin this chapter. Chapter four centers on the
exploration of the notion ofgender in Cat's Eye, a vital
dimension of female self-representation. Toelucidate the
patriarchal myth of gender, I have in this chapter employed
thecritiques made by Judith Butler and Teresa de Lauretis,
which provide atheoretical background for the analysis of
the novel. I have also exploredon the shifting attitude of the
protagonist in face of the social gender rolesand emphasized her
eventual identification with women and Woman, which isbased
on her long-term sufferings as a woman living in society.
In Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, we observe the contradictory