跨越女性身份的藩篱——以明清至现代几部家族小说为例

Surpassing the Limit of Female Status——A Study of the Evolutions of the Subject in both Modern and Archaic Kin Fictions

在传统文化对于女性的定位中,她们的身份往往是向内的;但是,在很多小说中,却有一些女性在不停地作着僭越自己身份的尝试。从明清到现代的几部家族小说中"易装"对传统服装文化的挑战、才女们从生活方式上对女性身份的僭越、五四时期娜拉们对革命男性的模仿、苏青对女性自身的言说这四个方面,可以看到明清到现代女性跨越自身身份的轨迹,以及她们所采用的不同方式背后的文化内涵和心理特征。

According to Chinese traditional culture,females are often demanded to stay at home.But in some fictions,many females go out of the house and surpass the limit of female status.Meng Lijun,the main character in Reborn Good Luck,tried cross-dressing to step over her status for the first time.As to A Dream of Red Mansions,talented ladies embodied their surpass of status in terms of personality and sentiment.After the May 4th New Culture Movement,Qin became a new female.Su Huaiqing in Tin Wedding successfully gained her right to speech by being a writer and expressing her own life experience.These ways reflect the different psychological features of the females in the fictions.