玻璃瓶中的身体政治:普拉斯《钟形罩》对美国历史现实的折射  

Body Politics in The Bell Jar:Plath's Recapture of the Historical Reality of 1950s America

作　　者：王凤霞 

机构地区：[1]南京大学外国语学院

出　　处：《外国语文研究（辑刊）》2024年第2期227-239,共13页

摘　　要：作为西尔维娅·普拉斯发表的唯一一部小说,《钟形罩》既以作者早年亲身经历为蓝本,艺术化再现其真实生活中的人物与社会,又融以小说故事发生的20世纪50年代与作品创作的60年代美国社会的部分现实事件,在个体与社会、历史与虚构、真实与想象的张力和交织中,有力展现了冷战初期美国历史现实图景。小说透过身体政治之镜,以第一人称叙事讲述了女主人公埃斯特·格林伍德长期遭受身心压抑,绝望反抗的心路历程,折射出女性所代表的“他者”群体在美国冷战政治笼罩下的生存现实。在冷战思维和白色恐怖之下,生命政治权力主体实行全方位遏制政策,从文化、商业和医疗等日常生活的微观层面加强对女性的身体规训,小说因此凸显了20世纪中叶美国社会弥漫的遏制思想和身体政治意识,呈现出的鲜明身体政治主题与冷战话语密不可分。As Sylvia Plath's only published novel,The Bell Jar is not only a literary representation of the author's personal experiences in her early years,of persons and the society in real life,but also integrates into its texture some of the real-life events in 1950s and 1960s American society.Navigating through the tension between and intertwining of the individual and the society,history and fiction,truth and imagination,the novel successfully captures the historical reality of American society in the early years of the Cold War.Through the vantage point of body politics and from the first-person perspective,the novel relates the protagonist Esther Greenwood's long-term depression and desperate resistance,refracturing the living reality of“the other”represented by women under the sway of Cold War politics pervading American society in the era.Under the Cold War mentality and the White Terror,the subject of bio-politics practices all-round policies of containment,reinforcing the discipline of women's bodies on such micro levels of daily life as culture,commercial consumption and medical care.The novel hence brings out the ideology of containment and the consciousness of body politics permeating American society in the 1950s,and its distinctive theme of body politics is inextricably bound up with Cold War discourse.

关 键 词：西尔维娅·普拉斯 《钟形罩》 历史现实 身体政治 冷战思维 

分 类 号：I712.074[文学—其他各国文学]