吉尔曼对女作家关于疯女人叙事传统的突破

Gilman's Breakthrough in Female Writers' Narrative Tradition About Mad Women

美国女性主义作家夏洛特.波金斯.吉尔曼在其短篇小说《黄色糊墙纸》中,对以往女作家关于疯女人的叙事传统有了很大的突破。相对于将疯女人置于文本的边缘地带,她则将其引入文本中心;相对于将叙述重心放在一个女人被逼疯的结果上,她则把笔墨聚焦在一个女人是如何被逼疯的过程上;相对于倾心描述疯女人壮烈的死,她则注重刻画其艰难的生;相对于疯女人的失语状态,她则赋予了疯女人以充分的话语权。吉尔曼对女作家关于疯女人叙事传统的突破,鲜明地表现了她作为女性主义作家的创作特点。

American feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman has, in her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, made a significant breakthrough in former female writers＇ narrative tradition about mad women. Compared with the former female writers, she highlights rather than marginalize the mad women in her text; she focuses on the process in which a woman is driven mad instead of the mere result; rather than elaborating the grand death of the mad women, she endeavors to depict their tough life; she does not deny but endow them with discourse power. The breakthrough of hers distinctly displays her writing style as a feminist writer.