自我与民族焦虑:《盲刺客》中的食物隐喻  

“Self”and“National Anxiety”:Metaphors of Food in The Blind Assassin

作　　者：佘诗媛 SHE Shiyuan(School of Foreign Languages,Shanghai University,Shanghai 200444,China)

机构地区：[1]上海大学外国语学院,上海200444

出　　处：《东莞理工学院学报》2023年第4期36-42,共7页Journal of Dongguan University of Technology

摘　　要：食物是小说《盲刺客》的一个重要叙事元素。在女主人公艾丽丝回忆家族史的过程中,有大量关于食物的描写,提供了深层隐喻:食物隐喻着不同角色的自我延伸,助人物于无意有意中构建真实自我;通过投射和内向投射,作为补偿机制出现的食物延伸着人们的情感诉求,有时以近乎成瘾的形式外显,实质隐喻的是一种存在焦虑。玛格丽特·阿特伍德依靠潜藏在主流历史下的女性/民族双重叙事,在“吃”与“被吃”之间隐喻着加拿大的民族焦虑,并借由小说结局给出了自己的解答。Food is a significant narrative element in The Blind Assassin.As Iris recollects her family history through writing,there are a lot of depictions about food providing some deep metaphors:food implies the extended selves of different characters,conducive to constructing themselves unintentionally and consciously;food also appears as a compensatory mechanism,and through projection and introjection,food extends people’s emotional appeals,sometimes almost in the form of addiction,essentially an existential anxiety.Furthermore,Margaret Atwood uses the female-national narratives that lie beneath the dominant history to give the metaphor of the national anxiety of Canada between“eating”and“being eaten”,thus giving her own solution through the ending.

关 键 词：玛格丽特·阿特伍德 《盲刺客》 食物隐喻 自我延伸 焦虑 

分 类 号：I106.4[文学—世界文学]