论现代文学叙述中妓女形象谱系与话语模式

Portrait and Language of Prostitutes in Modern Literature

在现代中国,妓女形象成为一种隐喻,一种表达思想意识、建构社会性别身份的媒介。人们通过对妓女形象的认知和想像来表达他们对民族现代性、社会关系和妇女解放等重大社会命题的思考,以此建立自我想像,寻求自我认同。对中国现代文学中精英知识分子笔下的妓女形象作一个谱系来考察,可以了解中国现代精英知识分子如何通过"这个媒介展开有关政治权力和文化转型,国民性和文化归依感等等问题的讨论,"检视创作主体的社会性别和社会身份对妓女话语系统建构影响。

In modem China, portrait of prostitutes has become an analogy, and an expression of ideology and a medium for building gender status. Writers use imagination and knowledge of prostitutes to express their ideas about national modernization, social relations and women＇s liberation and to establish their vision and self identity. To examine the portrait of prostitutes as a school of writing under the pens of outstanding intellectuals in modem Chinese literature, this paper recognizes how they discuss issues related to political power, cultural transformation, nationalism and cultural unity. It also demonstrates how gender and social status of the writers influence the literary construction of the discourse on prostitutes.