摘要
《伊坦·弗洛美》和《夏日》是伊迪丝·华顿创作的两部“新英格兰”题材小说,它们都以美国新英格兰地区的乡村生活为叙事背景,探讨了在男权文化支配下女性与自然之间的关联性以及异族女性对自我身份的追寻历程。《伊坦·弗洛美》中的玛提和《夏日》中的夏洛蒂都是自然化的女性人物,她们与自然的相似性使其成为男权文化的猎物和改造的对象。这两部小说在揭露男性强烈控制欲的同时,也透露出华顿对女性能在婚姻家庭中扮演主导角色的期待。华顿的“新英格兰”题材小说鲜明地展现了男性/女性、蛮荒/城市、白人/异族等在父权文化中的二元对立关系,表现出较为强烈的生态女性主义写作倾向。
The“new England”novels,which include Ethan Frome and Summer,are characterized with the rural areas in new England as narrative background.They focus on the mutual relation between women and nature in patriarchal culture as well as alien women’s pursuit for their self-identity.Mattie in Ethan Frome and Charity in Summer are both naturalized feminine characters.Their similarity with nature makes them become the prey and remolded objects in patriarchal culture.Both novels reveal the male strong desire for control.In addition,they also reveal Wharton’s expectation for women’s dominant role in marriage life and family.Wharton’s“new England”novels reflect clearly such dual relations as male/female,nature/city,white man/ethnic group in patriarchal culture,thus manifesting a clear tendency towards ecofeminist writing.
作者
魏懿
WEI YI(School of Foreign Languages,Shanghai Jianqiao University,Shanghai 200442,China)
出处
《江苏海洋大学学报（人文社会科学版）》
2023年第5期74-82,共9页
Journal of Jiangsu Ocean University（Humanities & Social Sciences Edition）
基金
上海建桥学院校级项目(SJQ20011)。
