摘要
本文探讨英国当代作家A.S.拜厄特在《吹口哨的女人》中对第二次女性主义浪潮时期一个所谓"自由女性"的特殊群体生存状态的重构。文章从作品内众多"变形"和"伪饰"意象入手,考察"自由女性"从外表到内在"失真"的状态,从而揭示她们自诩的"自由"的虚幻性。拜厄特一方面揭示了当时依然浓厚的父权制压迫,表达了对女性生存境遇的同情,另一方面,在赞赏"自由女性"勇于谋求自我发展的同时,也反思她们的"自我",认为过于强烈的自我追求也可能是"自由女性"不得"自由"的囹圄。
This paper investigates A. S. Byatt's reconstruction of the existence of so-called 'free women 'during the second wave of feminism in A Whistling Woman. Beginning with a discussion of imageries of'metamorphosis'and'disguise',the present paper attempts to illustrate the illusion of those women's self-styled 'freedom'. They are in fact distorted not only as a result of demonization by patriarchal culture,but also as a consequence of their own disguises,which are adopted as a means of survival in society. Those 'free women'thus suffer from denigration and the torture of living a double life. In addition,they are troubled by emotional isolation and a lack of sense of belonging. On the one hand,by exposing the injustice of die-hard patriarchalism,Byatt expresses her sympathy for their struggle for self-development; on the other hand,through re-examining those modern women's 'selves',she argues that excessive pursuit of self-fulfillment can also be an imprisonment,which prevents them from enjoying the essence of 'freedom'.
出处
《国外文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第1期65-73,158,共9页
Foreign Literatures
