琐事颠覆男权:论《琐事》中的女权主义意识

Male Authority Subverted by Trifles:on the Feminist Consciousness in Susan Glaspell's Trifles

美国著名剧作家苏珊.格莱斯佩尔的独幕剧《琐事》展示了男人和女人在舞台空间上的隔阂,本文从女权主义理论的角度出发,解构两性语言行为的根本差异、两性对话语权的操控差异以及两性之间自由与压迫的对立这几个二元对立的关系,暴露出男性信息交流方式的局限性和女性感情交流的优点,剧中的两位女性正是通过关注男人们所不齿的"琐事"与女主角无声的言说颠覆了男性的权威。

Susan Glaspell,a famous American woman playwright,demonstrates the misunderstanding between the men and the women on the stage in her one-act play,Trifles.Based on the feminism theory,this paper deconstructs the several binary relationships of the men and women between the gender-related difference in conversational behavior,the control of the language and the freedom and oppression,which reveals the drawbacks of the male's 'report talk' and the merits of the female's 'rapport talk'.In this play the two women,along with the heroine's silent speech,subverted the male authority just by focusing their attention on the trifles that are mocked and overlooked by men.