Abstract:
A review of contemporary female prose in Taiwan reveals an evolution of subjects from homesickness to feminist fighting. Moreover, women writers in Taiwan show their distinctive aesthetic creation and innovative awareness in their prose writing, which ranges from impressiveness to cognitive aesthetic quality, from pure expression of emotion to presentation of moral, from mild appreciation of personal experience to bold exhibition of rough masculinity. In terms of aesthetic duality, what seems “short and frivolous” in their prose are actually traces of their attempts for aesthetic creation of breakthrough and diversity in prose writing.
