摘要
多丽丝·莱辛的小说《天黑前的夏天》被芭芭拉·弗雷·韦克斯曼誉为“成熟小说”的文本典范。女主人公凯特人至中年,由于社会价值逐渐降低而饱受年龄歧视的袭扰,为此她开始了一段漫长的夏日之旅。在此过程中,凯特通过体验三种不同的新身份,意识到了母职对女性的束缚;通过对“镜像”的解构,察觉女性在社会文化中的客体性;通过梦境中海豹的救赎,实现自我突破,重塑女性身份。莱辛用凯特的“出走”与“回归”强调了女性在习得社会性别与面对年龄歧视时的痛苦与屈辱,揭示出个体身份虽受限于社会规范,但也能通过自我意识挑战社会规范,超越特定的性别文化角色性质。
Doris Lessing’s novel The Summer Before the Dark is regarded as the text model of“Reifungsroman”by Barbara Frey Waxman.The protagonist Kate is almost middle aged.Due to the ageism and declining social value,she begins a long journey in the summer.By experiencing three different identities,Kate realizes the restraint of motherhood on women.Through the deconstruction of the“mirror image”,she detects the objectification of women in social culture.Eventually,after the redemption of the seal in her dream,a breakthrough is achieved and her true self is pursued to reshape her femininity.Lessing uses Kate’s“leaving”and“returning”to emphasize women’s pain and humiliation in acquiring gender and facing age discrimination,revealing that although individual identities are restricted by social norms,women can also challenge social norms through self-consciousness and transcend the nature of specific gender cultural roles.
作者
吕佩爱
李子阳
LYU Peiai;LI Ziyang(School of Foreign Languages,Tongji University,Shanghai 200092,China)
出处
《合肥工业大学学报（社会科学版）》
2021年第1期76-83,共8页
Journal of Hefei University of Technology(Social Sciences)
