Woman, Sacrifice, and the Limits of Sympathy  

作　　者：Haiyan Lee 

机构地区：[1]The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2000, USA

出　　处：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》2012年第2期184-197,共14页中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：In both Lu Xun＇s ＂The New Year＇s Sacrifice＂ （1924） and Shirley Jackson＇s ＂The Lottery＂ （1948）, a woman is made a sacrificial victim by her village community, one symbolically and one literally. Using the two stories as my cross-cultural examples, I ponder the connection between the failure of sympathy and patriarchal sacrificial logic, and ask what literature can do to help create the condition of possibility for moral agency.In both Lu Xun＇s ＂The New Year＇s Sacrifice＂ （1924） and Shirley Jackson＇s ＂The Lottery＂ （1948）, a woman is made a sacrificial victim by her village community, one symbolically and one literally. Using the two stories as my cross-cultural examples, I ponder the connection between the failure of sympathy and patriarchal sacrificial logic, and ask what literature can do to help create the condition of possibility for moral agency.

关 键 词：SYMPATHY EMPATHY moral agency literature WOMAN Lu Xun Shirley Jackson 

分 类 号：N031[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学]