女性人生的历史困境——拜厄特小说《占有》之女性主义解读

The Historical Dilemma of Female Life——A Feminist Reading of Byatt's Possession

拜厄特的小说《占有》浓缩着女性生存数千年的历史图景,形成了当代西方文学女性叙事的独特风貌。小说以远古、维多利亚时代及当代这三个不同历史阶段的女性生命历程为叙事线索,重新阐释传统叙事中的诸多表现女性人生的经典意象,传达女性生存经验,探讨女性人生的历史困境。这种历史性思考揭示了女性生存之历史真相,开拓出当代文学女性生命言说的历史空间。

A. S. Byatt＇s Possession shows a condensed picture of female life in the long past of human history. It is a unique female narrative in western literature. The novel follows the narrative thread which comes from the ancient times, along the Victorian age and down to the contemporary age, trying to re-interpret numerous classical images of female life in narrative tradition, to show the experience of female existence and to explore the historical dilemma of female life. This kind of historical reflection reveals the historical truth of female life, and opens up new space for the narration of female life in contemporary literature.