摘要
本文以女权地理学的视角解读当代美国黑人女作家葆拉·马歇尔的第一部长篇小说《褐姑娘,褐砖房》,重点分析小说中各种社会空间的冲突和对立,以及它们与女主人公主体同一性的关系,从而审视遭受种族和性别歧视的黑人女主人公如何在迷茫和逆境中建构一个满足个体自由、跨越种族甚至性别限制的主体同一性。
Brown Girl, Brownstones is the Caribbean American writer Paule Marshall's first novel with semi-autobiographical elements. It is a bildungsroman of a black female protagonist, Selina, who grows up in an immigration family in a Barbadian community in New York. The conflict of interest and cultural values between her own parents, in the form of spatial contrasts, has set her on a journey of self-discovery. This paper takes the perspective of feminist geography to examine how Selina manages to construct an identity that allows individual freedom across the ethnic and sexual boundaries. Meanwhile, it explores Selina's spatial wandering and expansion in a racialist society as well as the difficulty in her integration of all the conflicting spaces around her in the hope of a unified self-identity. The ambivalence of the author and the polyphony of the novel are also discussed.
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第6期92-100,共9页
Foreign Literature
