摘要
印裔北美作家肖娜·辛格·鲍德温的小说《身体铭记的一切》以印巴分治为背景,通过女性视角叙述了女性身体所经历的来自宗教、种族和文化的暴力。小说中的女性之死不是肉体的自然衰朽,而是女性在性别、习俗和国族的网络中所遭受的规训、惩罚与剥夺。作家将女性的命运置于特殊的殖民主义与民族独立的大背景之下来考察,展示了女性身体如何成为欲望和权力的场域,从女性视角揭示了民族主义历史书写所忽略的内容。
With the background of partition of India and Pakistan,What the Body Remembers,a novel by Indian American novelist Shauna Singh Baldwin,addresses the violence forced on women's body by religion,race and culture from female perspectives.The death of women in the novel is not only the natural decay of the body,but also the oppression,punishment,and deprivation of women in the network of gender,customs and nationality.The author depicts the fate of women in the context of colonialism and national independence,shows how the female body becomes the domain of desire and power,and reveals what had been neglected by nationalist historical works from the female perspective.
出处
《文学与文化》
2022年第1期97-106,共10页
Literature and Culture Studies
