安吉拉·卡特的女性主义新童话

On Angela Carter's Revisionist Fairy Tales

英国当代文坛的著名女作家安吉拉.卡特一生创作了大量的文学作品,作为女权运动的支持者,她的许多作品对传统的西方童话进行了颠覆性的改写。她认为传统童话在充当父权制社会意识形态控制的机器时,维持和延续了父权制社会中占支配地位的价值观念,是约束和压制儿童、特别是女性儿童的有力工具,卡特通过重述西方经典童话创造出了一种清新独特的女性主义新童话。在"莱昂先生的求婚"、"老虎的新娘"、"灰姑娘或母亲的鬼魂"、"狼伴"、"爱屋的女主人"和"紫氏的爱情"等几部有代表性的短篇小说中,这种女性主义新童话一方面对于传统童话中暗藏的关于阳刚男性和女神母亲神话进行了深刻揭露和批判,另一方面通过几个鲜明的形象为女性重塑自我主体继而寻求建立在两性平等基础上的爱情指明了方向。

Much of Angela Carter＇ s short fiction takes the form of revisionist fairy tales. Arguing that traditional fairy tales served a patriarchal ideology by asserting patriarchal values and contributing in the discursive suppression of children （ female children in particular）, Carter produces a brand new kind of feminist fairy tales in which myths are debunked and new ways of female existence are depicted. Rewritten from a feminist perspective, traditional folklore in her hands takes on a sobering edge that is enough to help us rethink our our age-old fantasies about male sexual supremacy.