摘要
《火山恋人》是苏珊·桑塔格重拾小说题材的突破之作,饱含着作家的创作激情。小说虽以男性为标题,但真正聚焦的是在男性影响下作为"他者"的几位女性人物。她们或认同自身的"他者"身份,顺从地承受生命中的灾难;或被视为红颜祸水,玷污了男性的光辉形象;或选择像男性一样介入社会生活,但因越界之举而招致杀身之祸。桑塔格在传统历史传奇小说的叙事基础上进行了大胆的创新,让这些无法自我言说的"他者"在最后一部中发出了自己死后的声音。作者暗示即便在当下,女性摆脱"他者"身份获得自由仍是一条崎岖漫长之路。
The Volcano Lover,a novel imbued with Susan Sontag's passion after her long silence in fiction writing,initiates a general concern with women issues in her late works.Although the title refers to the male character in the novel,the main focus is on the women who live as 'the Other' under male domination.Among them,Catherine identifies herself with 'the Other,' willingly enduring her disastrous life;Emma is condemned as an evil spirit that ruins honorable men;Fonseca is sentenced to death as she transgresses her gender role by interfering in social affairs.Relying upon the traditional narration of the historical romance,Sontag brings innovation to the genre by giving voice to the silenced women in the last chapter.Speaking posthumously,those women argue for their right to exist.Examining the current status of women in the form of an 18th-century story,Sontag suggests that it is hard for women to enjoy real freedom and shake off the otherness ascribed to them.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2012年第2期105-112,共8页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
江苏省哲学社会科学基金项目资助(项目编号:09WWD014)
