从沉默的他者到沉默的主宰者——论《华盛顿广场》中女性话语的被剥夺与重新建构

Turning the Silent Other into the Silent Master:The Deprivation and Reconstruction of Female Discourse in Washington Square

本文主要借用米歇尔·福柯的权力话语理论、女权主义对女性话语的阐释以及玛格丽特·阿特伍德关于女性话语的建构观点,对《华盛顿广场》中女主人公凯瑟琳女性话语的被剥夺与重新建构进行分析。本文认为,凯瑟琳绝不是一位从始至终都逆来顺受的失语女性,而是一位在与男权话语斗争中成长起来的女斗士。

Applying Foucault’s power-discourses theory, feminist theory about interpreting female discourse and Atwood’s theory about creating female discourse to an analysis of how the protagonist Catherine’s female discourse in Washington Square is deprived and then reconstructed, this paper holds that rather than a de-voiced and passive female, Catherine remains from the beginning to the end of the story a woman warrior who grows up in her struggle with the male discourse.