论帕特里克·怀特小说中人物的性身份流动性

The Fluidity of Sexual Identities in Patrick White's Novels

帕特利克·怀特是澳大利亚最重要的现代主义文学家、1973年诺贝尔文学奖得主。怀特是一位同性恋作家,在当时主流文化的压制下,他在作品中对于性与性身份问题的表现较为隐晦,作品中人物的性身份和性角色常常处于不稳定、不确定的流动状态。通过对于怀特作品中人物性身份的发掘,我们将得以了解其对人性方方面面深刻认识。

As the most renowned Australian modernist writer,Patrick White has been Australia's only Nobel Literary Prize laureate.Himself a homosexual writer,White had been undergoing the suppression and repression of the then mainstream culture in Australia,and was only able to express his sexual identity and value in his literary works in an indirect and concealed way.The sexual identities in his writings are very often in an unstable and uncertain state of fluidity.The exploration of the gender and sexuality identities in White's works is conducive to a better understanding of his insights into aspects of humanity.