陳團英的《雨的禮物》及《夕霧花園》以日據馬來亞時期為背景，故事描繪兩位主角—菲利浦·哈頓及張雲林—的創傷經驗和記憶/遺忘間的掙扎。本論文以創傷及見證理論為基礎，旨在檢視作者如何呈現與詮釋心創者最終的釋懷。第一章以霍米·巴巴(Homi Bhabha)的文化身分論述為主軸，探討的是《雨的禮物》中，主角菲利浦身分的中介性是如何反映及呼應現代社會中的文化差異。爾後透過菲利浦的敘述，進而思考人的身分建立與其敘事力之密不可分的關聯性。第二章將透過凱西·卡魯斯(Cathy Caruth)的創傷理論，檢視《夕霧花園》中的張雲林如何不斷地重新經歷過去及解釋她對於承諾的執念。除了單純的敘事外，雲林的創傷經驗也透過具體的烙印—刺青，呈現出記憶與遺忘間相互交織及依賴的關係。第三章將著重在兩本小說的共通點，亦即呈現見證的不同方式。本章先個別分析文本中菲利浦及雲林見證時的難處，再透過討論紀念建築的功能，將原本單純的個人見證延伸至集體對於歷史創傷的探討。

Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain and The Garden of Evening Mists encircle Philip Hutton and Teoh Yun Ling’s traumatic experience as well as the two protagonists’ lingering predicament between memory and forgetting against the backdrop of Japanese Occupation in Malaya. In this thesis, I attempt to elucidate the two novels on the basis of trauma and the later constitution of testimony so as to see how the final reconciliation of the traumatized is exhibited and interpreted. Chapter One examines how Philip’s identity’s in-betweenness in relation to the phenomena of culture-as-difference by adopting Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of cultural identity. From Philip’s first person point of view, the novel unravels the vital relation between one’s narrability and the constitution of his identity. On the basis of Cathy Caruth’s theory of trauma, Chapter Two scrutinizes the protagonist in The Garden of Evening Mists, Teoh Yun Ling’s unwittingly reliving of the past as well as her obsession with the promise. Apart from her depiction of the past events, the traumatic experience is also represented through the concrete inscription, the horimono, bringing the intertwining relationship between memory and forgetting and their mutual dependence to the fore. In Chapter Three, I would draw upon the particular feature that the two novels share—the demonstration of testimony. This chapter analyzes Philip and Yun Ling’s individual testimony respectively. By exploring the functionality of monumental constructions, we learn that their testimony can be extended to the collective testimony to the historical trauma.

Table of Contents
論文審定書……………………………………………………………….... i
Acknowledgements…………………………………………………….….ii
中文摘要………………………………………………………….………...iii
Abstract………………………………………..……………………….......iv
Introduction………………………………………………………………...1
Chapter One: Identity’s In-betweenness and Culture-as-difference in The Gift of Rain…………………………………………………25
Chapter Two: Trauma and Memory in The Garden of Evening Mists………………………………………………………..45
Chapter Three: Reconciliation and Transmission: Manifold Testimonies in Tan Twan Eng’s Novels…………………………………..67
Conclusion…………………………………………………………….......87
Works Cited……………………………………………………………….93

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