夏洛特˙柏金˙吉爾曼 (1860-1935) 是一位十九世紀末的卓越美國女性作家，小說家和演講家。立志為一名改革家，為了社會進步，畢生大力提倡男女平權的重要性。<<夏洛特˙柏金˙吉爾曼的生活>>是吉爾曼在1935年過逝前安排出版的最後一本作品，也是她的自傳。本篇論文的主旨，在於探索本自傳的價值，並討論吉爾曼特殊的自我書寫風格。第一章從歷史的角度檢視自傳的標準，在近代的演進變化，期望能為吉爾曼自傳書寫方式，受到質疑其真實性與殘缺片斷的評論，找到合理的解讀方式。第二章的研究方法使用瑪莉˙梅森的全視它者理論，期望透過全面透視的方法，來檢視為什麼在吉爾曼的自傳書寫中，人性議題被視為書寫要點，它是如何的重要法。第三章的研究方法透過茱莉亞˙瓦特生所論述的它者與自我間的關聯性，來分析吉爾曼在自傳書寫中，人性議題作為它者與紗幔下所呈現的自我，兩者之間存在的關聯。透過關聯性的探討，期望能解讀吉爾曼書寫自我的特殊性，從自傳中看出吉爾曼呈現自我的方式。結論中會摘要各章要點，試圖點出吉爾曼在掙扎與混亂的書寫過程中所創造出來的自傳所呈現的價值，在女性自傳的歷史上具有吉爾曼個人書寫特色。

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American female writer, novelist, and lecturer in the late nineteenth century. As a reformer, Gilman aimed to give an understanding to the world of the necessity of an equal position between men and women for a social progress. This thesis investigates the value of The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman as Gilman’s autobiography. Chapter One examines the canons to autobiographies from time to time with the historical viewpoints, expecting to look into an explanation for those arguments to Gilman’s autobiographical writing to question its accuracy and omissions. Chapter Two adopts the strategy of fully rendered Other by Mary Mason to examine Gilman’s conscious humanity – the key ideas in The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman with a transparent view, in order to discover why and in what way the conscious humanity is important to Gilman. Chapter Three will analyze the related vein between the chosen subject and the Gilman’s shadowy self in The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman based on Watson’s cultural other, expecting to find a more coherent interpretation to Gilman’s own way of delineating the self in her autobiographical writing. In conclusion, I will focus on the summary of all those findings, and attempt to explore the value of The Living that Gilman had created on her self-writing process with struggles and confusions and how she eventually turned out the definite autobiography in women’s autobiographical history.

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