艰难的女性启蒙——重读张爱玲《倾城之恋》

Female Awakening in Difficulty: Rereading Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City

在中国现代文学史的描述中,张爱玲的的小说往往被认为关注私人生活而缺少时代意识。实际上,张爱玲的创作依然曲折而深沉地回应了社会现实问题,其代表作《倾城之恋》中女主角白流苏的三次"出走"与"回归"是关于女性启蒙状况的隐喻,反映了20世纪前期普通女性生存与启蒙之间的对立冲突,间接传达了五四启蒙范围和深度的有限性。

In the historical canon of Chinese modern literature, Eileen Chang’ s novels are regarded as only concerned about personal life but indifferent to her time. In fact, some social issues are indirectly but profoundly addressed by Chang’ s writings, as represented by her novel Love in a Fallen City wherein the heroine Bai Liusu’s three'absences' and 'returns' suggest her difficult awakening of female consciousness. Bai’s acts have reflected the psychological struggle of ordinary women of the early twentieth century between existence and awakening, and thus indirectly allegorized the limitations in width and depth of the success of the May 4th Movement.