失真的自我——论《吹口哨的女人》对“自由女性”的重构  

Distorted Selves: On Reconstruction of “Free Women”in A Whistling Woman

作　　者：陈姝波[1] 

机构地区：[1]首都师范大学外国语学院英文系

出　　处：《国外文学》2015年第1期65-73,158,共9页Foreign Literatures

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'.

关 键 词：A.S.拜厄特 《吹口哨的女人》 “自由女性” 变形 伪饰 

分 类 号：I561.074[文学—其他各国文学]