西娅·阿斯利:一个站在男性世界的女性讽刺作家

Thea Astley:A Woman Satirist as a Man

西娅.阿斯利是澳大利亚当代知名女作家之一。在六、七十年代由男性主宰的澳大利亚文学界,她是那一代人中唯一一位成功的女作家。她的作品多以男性为主人公,通过描写社会中的局外人或小人物,对她所目睹的澳大利亚社会进行尖锐的讽刺。本文认为,西娅.阿斯利之所以从男性的视角进行创作,是与她那个时代的社会背景分不开的,而正是这种视角的转换,才使得她可以通过文字阐述自己的思想,抨击社会的种种陋习。

Thea Astley was one of Australia＇s most celebrated women writers. She was the only Australian woman novelist of her generation to have won success throughout the 1960s and 70s, when the literary world was heavily male dominated. She mainly wrote male characters in her novels, which featured the mordant irony of her gaze on Australian society by the portrayal of social outsiders and misfits. This paper holds that Thea Astley＇s writing as a man has something to do with the then society. And it is this change of writing angle that makes Thea Astley a sharp satirist against the bad social habits.