多维需求中的女性主义叙事策略:《一小时的故事》再解读

Feminist Narrative Strategies and Multi-dimensional Needs:Rereading "The Story of an Hour"

《一小时的故事》是凯特·肖邦最有名且最具争议性的短篇之一。本文在叙事学著名学者兰瑟和申丹等人研究的基础上,对他们相互对立的观点进行反思。兰瑟认为该故事是女性主义的典型之作,而申丹主要从其反讽艺术中推导出该故事的保守倾向。本文认为该故事是肖邦对女性主义、艺术成就、经济独立、伦理道德多种需求交织平衡的产物。多种需求之间的碰撞成就了她叙事策略上的审美张力,使女性主义的幽灵戴着传统伦理面具游荡出来。

＂The Story of an Hour＂ is one of the most famous and controversial short stories written by Kate Chopin. This paper presents a dialogue with two prestigious scholars Susan Sniader Lanser and Dan Shen, who hold contrastive arguments on the interpretation of this short story. Lanser argues that ＂The Story of an Hour＂ is an exemplary feminist work, while Shen points out the various ironies and conservative attitude implied in this story. Different from both of them, this paper holds that Chopin employs aptly the various narrative strategies to achieve a balance between feminist, moral, economic and aesthetic concerns, thus producing a feminist spectre with a conservative moral mask.