《菊花》的生态女性主义思想

An Eco-feminist Study of Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums"

约翰·斯坦贝克的著名短篇小说《菊花》,通过农村妇女艾丽莎的日常生活和人生经历,反映了美国20世纪30年代男性和人类至上的二元对立思维模式对女性和自然的忽视、压迫、摧残和统治,揭示了女性精神和大自然之间的天然联系,表达了作者对父权制意识形态、功利主义及人类中心主义思想的深刻批评,体现了他对自然和女性命运同等关注的远见和情怀。

The Chrysanthemums,one of the best short stories by John Steinbeck,is about the life experiences of a 35-year-old woman named Elisa who lives on a ranch in the American west shortly after the Great Depression.An ecofeminist study of the story reveals the fact that women as well as nature are usually ignored,oppressed and destroyed by male-chauvinistic and man-centric dualism prevalent in America during the 1930s.Steinbeck aims to criticize the patriarchal ideology,utilitarianism and man-centrism as he strongly holds that there exists a natural tie between nature and feminine spirit.Through the image of Elisa,the insightful author expresses his affectionate feelings towards nature,women and their fate.