从后现代女权主义视角阐释巴斯妇主体性建构模式

Interpretation of the Wife of Bath's Mode of Subjectivity Construction

巴斯妇是英国诗人杰弗雷.乔叟名作《坎特伯雷故事集》的《巴斯妇序言》和《巴斯妇故事》的主人公。十二岁嫁人、五次结婚。在婚姻中,她利用女人的肉体功能和男人的弱点迫使男人交出土地和财产、在家庭生活中处于从属地位、心甘情愿地处于无声状态,从而,建立女性在经济生活和家庭生活中的主导地位以及以身体和个体经验为基础的话语体系。在后现代全球化时代,巴斯妇以肉体商业化、政治化和话语化为特征的主体性建构模式值得质疑。

The Wife of Bath is a major heroine in The Wife of Bath＇s Prologue and The Wife of Bath＇s Tale in Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer, a world famous English poet. She gets married when she is twelve years old, and has been married five times at Church. When married, she forces her spouses to give up their land and treasure to her, to be in subordinate position and to be silent about their positions in the families, gains a large number of properties, is responsible for the governing of the house and develops a discourse based on female body and individual experiences by the use of female body and man＇ s weakness. In the epoch of postmodern globalization, in the mode of the wife of Bath＇ s subjectivity construction, there are some points worthy to be questioned.