坏种:露丝·尾关的小说《大千世界》中濒危的多样性(英文)

Bad Seed: Imperiled Diversities in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation

本文分析了露丝·尾关的第二部小说《大千世界》所探讨的食品政治和性别政治,认为这部小说表现的为生物多样性和社会多样性而进行的抗争深深地隐含在有关男权控制女性生育和性行为的问题中。《大千世界》表现了企图对土豆进行遗传学控制的跨国公司大佬和反对生物遗传工程的食品激进份子之间的紧张关系,同时彰显了两者之间的冲突对于生育正义、性行为问题、多样性与自由生长而言所具有的重要意义。本文认为,小说的故事情节展现了主流环境主义者与妇女生育权倡导者之间的诸多鲜明的结合点。

The author analyzes Ruth Ozeki＇ s second novel, All Over Creation, and the politics of food and gender that it explores. The struggles within this novel, Stein maintains, for bio- and social diversity are deeply implicated in questions about patriarchal control of women＇ s reproduction and sexuality. All Over Creation follows tensions between the captains of transnational corporations who seek the genetic control of potatoes and the food activists who resist biogenetic engineering. The conflict between these two, Ozeki shows, has important implications for reproductive justice, for matters of sexuality, and for diversity and free growth. Stein argues that the plot of All Over Creation describes compelling intersections between concerns of mainstream environmentalists and advocates for women＇ s reproductive choice.