追寻自我——温蒂·华瑟斯廷作品述评

Self Searching in Wendy Wasserstein's Five Major Plays

本文简要评述了华瑟斯廷的主要作品,指出从《不寻常女人及其他》到《美国女儿》,华瑟斯廷的作品展现一代女性在关于女性自我身份话语不断变化甚至相互冲突的后女权主义美国社会中追寻自我的历史画卷,表现了女性自我的历史性、复杂性和流动不居的特征。简单地从女权主义者的身份和立场肯定或否定华瑟斯廷这样一位活跃在主流戏剧舞台上却始终关注当代美国女性境遇问题的女性剧作家无疑失之偏颇,根本上忽视了剧作家关于女性自我多元、动态的思考。

The article provides a general survey of Wasserstein＇ s dramatic works, proposing that from Uncommon Women and Others to An American Daughter Wasserstein＇ s five major plays deal with baby-boom women＇ s quest for self in a postfeminist U. S. A, where various discourses about the female self are constantly changing and clashing with each other. What emerges from these plays is a pluralistic feminist thinking of the female self as a dynamic process characterized by historicity, fluidity and complexity.