在當今頗為興盛的少女研究中，學術界開始著重以交織研究的方式來探索少女的生命經驗。少女論述原本眾說紛紜，卻有學者將獨立且分岐的兩大論述「少女之能」及「拯救奧菲莉亞」並置在同一個脈絡下討論：當中產階級女孩較有能力實現「少女之能」時，一些因遭遇困難而被其排除在外的女孩，卻因「拯救奧菲莉亞」論述的存在受到關注。以全面性關照為目標，學者也提出從脈絡化的角度來個別檢視少女的狀況。唯有將個人的性別、階級、種族、位置、能力、性慾等因素的交織情形都列入考量時，每位女孩獨特的生命經驗才不至於被簡化。
利用交織運作來達到全面關照的前提下，過去的女孩經驗不應該被遺漏。故事時間點設在二十世紀中期的兩個文本，《最湛藍的眼睛》及《卡羅萊納的私生女》也應當被視為以少女為中心人物的少女文學。當兩位作者顧及女孩生活中的各個面向與因素時，對於讀者從脈絡化的角度來交織閱讀如何遭遇性暴力的期待，也就不言而喻了。以性暴力與被強暴的創傷經驗為主軸，本論文嘗試重新閱讀少女的生命經驗。首先，透過分章討論個別文本的方式，希望細說黑人女孩的身體是如何在種族主義充斥的社會中成為代罪羔羊；再者，窮困的白人女孩也免不了魚池之殃，在不公義的社會中遭受強暴。最後的章節，將強調種族、階級、及性別意識形態間繁複糾纏運作的結果。此外，也會著重女孩們是如何運用能動力來導向各自不同的命運。

In the current prospering girls' studies, scholars are gradually emphasizing the importance of intersectional exploration on girls' experiences. Among the independent and contradictory discourses, Girl Power discourse that inevitably gives patent to the middle-class capable girls is conducted in dialogues through a broader lens with Reviving Ophelia discourse that concerns the excluded and less capable party. In this effort for a comprehensive understanding of girls' experiences, scholars also shed light on how each girl's life should be contextualized. Only with the attention to the way gender, class, race, location, (dis)ability, sexuality, and etc. intersect can girls' experiences be fully addressed without simplification.
In accordance with this intersectional framework, girls in the past should also be taken into consideration. Situated in the mid-twentieth century United States, The Bluest Eye and Bastard out of Carolina center on girls as the protagonists and should therefore be treated as girl literature particularly related to girls' experiences. When the authors of both works relate the girls' lives to various factors and dimensions in the story, they also suggest a contextualized and intersectional reading of girls' victimization through sexual violation. This thesis thus attempts to re-read their experiences through the central traumatic events: sexual violence and rape. By separating the texts in individual chapter, I hope to specify how black girls’ little bodies become the scapegoats of a racist society and how the poor white girl, rather than being exempted from the tragedy, also suffers social injustice through rape. In the final chapter, the inextricable interweaving of race, class, and gender ideology on girls' lives will be foregrounded as well as how girls’ final fate can be determined through the working of agency.

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