期刊刊名：文學新鑰 　 卷期：20期

篇名出版日期：2014年12月1日

作者：邱正祥,Chen-Hsiang Chiu

語言：English

關鍵字：travelogue,female mobility,dislocation,anti-home motif,遊記,女性能動性,流離,「反」家命題

被點閱次數：12次

閱讀時間：1502sec

摘要：
This essay attempts to re-read Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South as a female travelogue. In the course of the novel, Margaret moves from the south to the north, from the rural idyll to the industrial town, then returns to the country, and later (temporarily) settles in the metropolis, London. The heroine’s experience of movement is actually an experience of modernity: a sense of dislocation. Dislocation, however, should not be viewed as negative in its literal sense. On the one hand, Margaret’s dislocatedness, as the consequence of her travel, destabilizes the established concept of home as the end-point of one’s departure. On the other hand, Gaskell’s representation of Margaret’s mobility undermines the notion that travel is a masculine project, a privilege that excludes women’s participation. Through Margaret’s travelogue, we readers witness her interaction with the local people of different classes. The essay concludes that Margaret, with the experience of witnessing her hometown’s transformative development, comes to realize that Helstone is not immune to the process of modernization. Her plural senses of belonging lie in her mobility to travel from the home, and through the experience of moving she remaps her identity in transit.

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