摘 要
本論文旨在探討林玉玲詩中的語言、身分與性別等議題。林玉玲身為華裔馬人及亞裔美人，因自身的語言選擇、多重身分及性別角色等因素而被排擠及邊緣化。在多篇作品中，林經常藉由探討語言、身分與性別等議題來質疑並顛覆意欲排擠及邊緣化他者的霸權。林以語言、身分與性別皆為流動、易變的概念來揭露霸權內在的矛盾與謬誤並表明個體可以不被霸權所束縛。筆者認為詩能最佳反映出林被排擠及邊緣化的真實情感因為它較多自發性且較少教條味。在第一章，筆者將討論林的語言疏離、邊緣化等問題以及她如何運用語言來跨越有形、無形的疆界。第二章將探討林如何因離散身分在馬來西亞及美國遭受雙重排擠以及她如何運用離散的中介身分在不同的文化間轉換、協調並重新定義家的意義。第三章的重點在於林對受苦及受壓迫婦女的描繪以及她如何打破性別階級。最後，筆者總結詩是讀者最能了解林的基本思想及傑出詩學表現的文體。

Abstract
This thesis aims to examine the language, identity and gender issues in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry. Lim, a Chinese Malaysian and an Asian American, suffers from exclusion and marginalization because of her language choice, multiple identities and gender role. In many of her writings, Lim often, by investigating the language, identity and gender issues, interrogates and subverts hegemony forces attempting to marginalize and exclude others. Lim uses her concept of fluid language, identity and gender to expose the inherent contradictions and fallacies in hegemony forces on the one hand and demonstrates her release from them on the other. I propose that poetry is Lim’s best instrument to reflect her candid feelings about her marginalization and exclusion since it is more spontaneous and less didactic. In Chapter One, I investigate Lim’s linguistic alienation and marginalization and her utilization of language to cross boundaries, physical and metaphoric. Chapter Two explores how Lim, as a result of her diasporic identity, suffers from double exclusion in Malaysia and America and how she employs her diasporic identity, an “in-between” identity to negotiate and translate between different cultures and thereby redefine the meanings of home. The emphasis of Chapter Three is placed on Lim’s portrayals of suffering and oppressed women, and her dismantling of gender hierarchy. At last, I conclude that poetry serves as a best for a reader to understand Lim’s basic ideas and appreciate her outstanding poetic achievement.

Table of Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................1
Chapter One
Writing as Deterritorialization: Shirley Lim’s Language Choice and Boundary Crossing................................................................................................................................29
Chapter Two
An Indeterminate Self: Shirley Lim’s Diasporic Identity and Ways to “Home” ................58
Chapter Three
Un-silencing the Oppressed: Women’s Reposition in Shirley Lim’s Poetry.......................90
Conclusion
From Oppression to Subversion: A Recapitulation of Language, Identity and Gender in Shirley Lim’s Poetry……...................................................................................................116
Works Cited..........................................................................................................................123

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