行走在历史之外——论严歌苓新作《第九个寡妇》中的性别修辞

Walking on the Outside of History:On the Vocabulary of Gender in Yan Geling's New Production The Number Nine Widow

本文从历史叙事与女性生存、革命叙事与民间伦理、女性叙事与性别修辞三个方面对严歌苓新作《第九个寡妇》中的性别修辞进行了解读,认为《第九个寡妇》还原了女性的性别场景,完成了对主流历史叙事的反思和对大历史中女性生存的体察;通过对民间生存伦理的挖掘质疑了革命伦理的民间生活的伤害;《第九个寡妇》还通过对女性外部经验的书写透视历史中的女性与女性经验中的历史,从而为性别叙事提供了一个新的视角。

This paper utilizes the combinations of historical narratives and female living, revolutionary narratives and folk ethics, and female narratives and gendered expressions to examine the use of gender vocabulary in Yan Gelin＇s The Number Nine Widow. It recognizes that Yan has restored female＇s gendered scene and provided the reflections on the mainstream historical narratives and experiential account of women＇s lives in history. Through uncovering the folk ethics, Yan has exposed the injury of revolutionary ethics on folk living. Yan has also uncovered the woman in history and the history of woman＇s experience through the description of woman＇s experience with outside world. In so doing, Yan has presented a new angle for gender based story telling.