女性与自然的言说——从《花园小屋》中透视薇拉·凯瑟早期的生态女性主义思想

Conversation between Women and Nature——Analysis of Willa Cather's Ecofeminism in The Cabin in the Garden

薇拉.凯瑟的短篇小说《花园小屋》中的小屋具有深刻的象征意义,它代表着女性挣脱男权传统樊篱的向往和追求个人理想的渴望。小说以生动、贴切的自然描写,恰如其分地映衬了女主人公的梦想与现实之间的内心挣扎和痛苦选择。女性与自然同为"他者",作品通过二者的言说,表现出女主人公作为边缘人、附属物对自我的压抑和最终屈从于现实、被迫放弃梦想而产生的深深的无奈。从而反映了薇拉.凯瑟早期的生态女性主义思想。

In the short fiction of The Cabin in the Garden by Willa Cather, the cabin symbolizes women＇ s desire to be free from the control of the patriarchal society. The vivid description of the nature in the fiction properly matches with the heroines psychological sufferings and struggles between her dream and harsh reality. Being an ＂others＂ of human beings, the nature reveals helplessness and self -depression of the heroine who has to give up her dream as the marginal person of the society. Therefore, Cather＇ s ecofeminist thought was embodied in the fiction.