新马诗人淡莹诗中文学地景之研究 = A study of poetic landscapes in Danying's poems

Abstract

This thesis makes the claim that poetic landscapes in Danying?s poems reflect her cultural nostalgia and her quests for subjectivity. The poetic landscapes indicate Danying?s perceptions of the world and can be seen as an interface where she interprets her cultural nostalgia and her lurking fears of being rootless as an overseas Chinese. The continuous quests for a cultural root and the sense of belonging are implied in the landscape of memory, which is represented in melancholic statements similar to the feminine expressions of ?guiyuan?(??) in traditional Chinese literature. Her anxiety about being rootless, on the other hand, is implied in the landscapes of exile where the poetic speakers wonder lonely in the desolate fields or isolated cliffs. The landscapes of body display how Danying recollects her subjectivity by converting body images into natural landscapes.