本篇論文主要討論美洲原住民的「說故事傳統」如何協助席爾柯與荷根在生命敘事中述說自我。在席爾柯「說故事的人」及荷根「守望世界的女人」兩本書中，自我的形成及呈現與作者反覆著墨的故事主題息息相關。書中的部落故事及生命故事可區分為三個主題：土地、社群及神話，三類皆代表美洲原住民之文化與精神。在作者書寫這些故事之時，反映出的不僅是這些議題對原住民的重要性，更是作者被三者深刻影響的自我。這種非直接敘述自我的寫作方式，讓席爾柯和荷根得以用不違反原住民傳統之方式來呈現內在的自我，更使個人的生命敘事成為替族群發聲的媒介。本文亦比較兩作者在不同主題下所呈現的自我，並明白指出席爾柯的自我敘述是以族群為中心，而荷根則是走出部落，試圖將世界作為她發展自我概念的基點。

This thesis aims to analyze how Native American tradition storytelling functions in the life narratives of Leslie Marmon Silko and Linda Hogan—Storyteller and The Woman Who Watches over the World—to portray the formation of the self which is inseparable from the themes of the stories that the authors constantly center on. I categorize their stories into three spheres—the land, the community and the myth—and in so doing illustrate three dimensions of the self: the land-based self, the collective self and the mythical self. Through writing about the land, the community and the myth, indirect ways of self-telling can be observed and is worth further discussion. This thesis argues that it is through this indirect writing technique that Silko and Hogan are allowed to disclose their private selves without violating the Native American tradition and to turn the self-telling into a means of speaking for the community. In the end, this thesis will compare the selves that Silko and Hogan present in each dimension and point out that Silko’s self is community-based while Hogan’s self centers on the entire humanity.

Chapter 1: Introduction……………………………………………………………. 1
Chapter 2: Telling Stories from the Land: The Land-based Self………………...16
Chapter 3: Various Voices in Me: The Collective Self ……………………………37
Chapter 4: Looking for the Self in the Myth: The Mythical Self……………….. 54
Chapter 5: Conclusion …………………………………………………………......70
Appendix A: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Genealogy …………………………….…... 74
Appendix B: Linda Hogan’s Genealogy…………………………………………...75
Works Cited………………………………………………………………………... 76

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