本論文嘗試探討雅買加˙金潔德小說中的文本政治，著重於分析其如何以自傳體形式的書寫，策略性地重置自我，歷史及其背後的權力關係。在雅買加˙金潔德小說中，權力關係的場域，往往架構於母女關係的主題性衍異。而互為表?堛熙o兩個對應(映)層面，將金潔德個人自傳性的故事延展成為政治性的歷史敘事，進而突顯金潔德將書寫做為一種生存抗爭的策略。第一個章節著重於金潔德如何將書寫自我做為一種抗爭行動。一方面，有別於西方後結構文論對於書寫主體的死亡宣告，金潔德突顯以其名及其文化之名發言的必要性與政治性。另一方面，金潔德在其自我定位書寫的抗爭中，藉由西方後結構文論對於二元論述下自我概念生成的拆解，置身於弱勢者的中界空間，既拆解又建構，藉此以尋求策略性自我定位。第二個章節則是針對歷史在身體的銘刻，藉由米歇爾˙傅柯對權力與身體的系譜學分析，檢視金潔德小說中的主角在面對權力銘刻之際，如何具體化其抗爭的行動。第三個章節著眼於金潔德自傳性書寫的政治性。首先分析加勒比海女性書寫的政治性與其歷史的關係，進而藉由西方後結構文論拆解其自身歷史的合理性。而金潔德透過自傳性的書寫，逆寫母女/權力關係，進而突顯其個人故事與歷史敘事互為表?堛漪F治性。

Abstract
In this thesis, I attempt to examine Jamaica Kincaid’s re-negotiation with the politics of power relations in her novels. Kncaid’s novels, through the strategic deployment of autobiographical writing, redress the power dimension in the notions of self and history. The fact that Kincaid frames the field of power relations within the thematic recurrence of mother-daughter relations structures her novels in a way that conflates her personal stories with her group history. Moreover, such a structure emphatically registers the self-positioning act of Kincaid’s writing as a strategy for survival. The first chapter explores how Kincaid mobilizes her self-writing as an act of political resistance. On the one hand, Kincaid opposes her writing which is delivered in the name of herself or her culture to the poststructuralist pronouncements of the general demise of a writing subject. On the other hand, Kincaid, through implicating the poststructuralist fracture of self in the protocol of decolonization, attempts to strategically inhabit in what Homi Bhabha calls the in-between space to define herself. The second chapter deals with the inscription of historical forces on the body. Foucault’s genealogical unpacking of history in the body here helps to investigate how Kincaid’s fictional alter egos bear and, more importantly, act out against the inscription of power. The third chapter focuses on the politics of Kincaid’s autobiographical writing. At first, I unpack the relations between history and the politics of women’s writing in the West Indies, and borrow the poststructuralist interrogation of Western historical knowledge to contradict the West’s epistemological claims to West Indian history. And then I turn to the analysis of Kincaid’s autobiographical writing, which, through its thematic deployment of mother-daughter relations, turns on the political empowerment in her strategic integration of her personal and collective history.

Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction 1

Chapter One
Writing Self as an Act of Resistance 4

Chapter Two
The Politics of History and Body Inscription 41

Chapter Three
Making History: Writing Her Autobiographical Stories 73

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