从“他乡”到“她乡”:吉尔曼女性主义写作策略的转变

From "Hisland"to "Herland":The Evolutionary Shift in Gilman's Feminist Writing

夏洛特.帕金斯.吉尔曼是美国女性主义文学的鼻祖。对吉尔曼的小说进行整体考察,可以发现:她的创作经历了从解构“他乡”(男权社会)到建构“她乡”(女性乌托邦)的转变,或者说,从以揭露和解构为主的现实主义,走向了以规划和建构为目标的乌托邦主义写作。这使她成为树立女性乌托邦典范的枢纽人物,其对于现代女性乌托邦文学的影响可谓深远。同时,这一转变也充分显示了吉尔曼女性主义思想的前瞻性,她预见性地实践了后现代女性主义所倡导的女性主义文学之目标,即:击破、摧毁、预见与规划。

Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a foremother of American feminist literature. Her whole life was devoted to the cause of feminism. A systematic study of her works reveals that her writing has undergone a paradigm shift from deeonstrueting ＂hisland＂ （the patriarchal ideology）to constructing a ＂herland＂ （a feminist utopia）, or in other words, a shift from feminist realism to feminist utopianism. She anticipates what the postmodem feminism advocates as the goal of feminist writing： to break up, to destroy, and to foresee the unforeseeable, and to project future.