摘要
《婚礼的成员》一书往往被当作是关于作者卡森.麦卡勒斯少女时代的一部自传体小说。因而,评论家们多从"成长小说"的角度,阐释小说中的青少年成长主题,却忽略了作品中特定的历史语境。小说中短短四天的时间跨度是40年代美国南方历史的浓缩。在动荡不安的社会现实之外,卡森.麦卡勒斯通过塑造厨房、小丑、双性同体等一系列的狂欢意象,构建了一个理想的乌托邦王国,从而颠覆了美国南方社会的主流意识形态。基于此,本文借用巴赫金的狂欢理论,探究小说中乌托邦王国的狂欢色彩,进而揭示作品中颠覆意义的本质。
The Member of the Wedding has always been regarded as an autobiographical novel about Carson McCullers's adolescence.Reading from the perspective of Bildungsroman,critics try to explore the initiation theme,which overlooks the historical context set in the novel.These four short days depicted in the novel are the epitome of American Southern history in the 1940's.Beyond the turbulent and riotous reality in the South,McCullers constructs an ideal utopia via the carnivalesque images of kitchen,clowns and androgyny to subvert the mainstream ideology of the Southern American society.Therefore,in terms of Bakhtinian notion of carnivalization,this paper elaborates the carnivalesque utopia in the work so as to reveal its subversive nature.
基金
杭州市哲学社会科学规划课题(B11WX08)
浙江省教育厅科研项目(Y201119915)
