本論文旨在研究莎士比亞之<奧賽羅> 與愛芙拉班之<黑王子>中種族與性別之關係,藉由檢視種族與性別之交互作用,本論文探討我者與他者,西方與東方,黑人與白人,男性與女性之二元對立之建構,本論文共分五章節,首章為探討黑人男性與白人女性在歷史論述中地位的角色, 次章討論莎士比亞與愛芙拉班間的種族同質性與性別相異性如何影響兩位作家對黑人角色的再現, 第三章將更進一步探討黑人男性與白人女性既合作又衝突的關係,並突顯黑人女性的雙重迫害,第四章藉由他者之刻版意像,研究東方主義論述之運作與權力的關係,界由此二部作品交互檢驗種族與性別間錯綜複雜,曖昧不清之關係,跳脫二元對立思考結構

The primary purpose of the thesis is to examine the racial polipolitics of Shakespeare's Othello and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko by setting it alongside an analysis of sexual difference in two distinct but connected ways. Through the discussion of the intersectionality of race and gender in a woman's writing as well as in man's, I will discuss the trope of self and other, the West and the East, and the double oppression of native women. The first chapter explores how the figures of the black man and white woman are positioned in theoretical discourses. The second chapter is to scritinize how the racial sameness and sexual difference contribute to Shake-speare's and Behn's representation of the black heroes. The third chapter problematizes the easy equation between black man and white woman and questions the category of woman. With the fixed images of the Other, I will investigate the exercise of the Orientalist discourses. Othello and Oroonoko offer a cross-examination of sexual, racial and even class domination and by revealing the heterogeneity of the oppressing and the oppressed group, the two texts challenge the oppositional politics of both feminism and postcolonialism.