美国二战小说中的隐形战场——性

Sex:The Hidden Battlefield in U.S.World War Ⅱ Novels

美国二战小说具有两个主题——反法西斯以及控诉现代社会权力,两个战场——敌我斗争的前线战场和官兵之间阶级斗争的后方战场。根据性的政治属性,本文研究美国二战小说中的性行为,发现性作为隐形战场和写作策略为前两个战场的意识形态服务,并隐含威胁士兵生命的第三条战线。文章揭示了二战小说作者如何通过各种性行为,包括异性、同性和性暴力,谴责战争和抗议权力。当性行为变成政治表述工具时,它失去本身的含义而承载作者和读者过多的期望。

U.S. World War II novels usually have two themes--anti-fascist and indictment of the modem power, and two battlefields--the fight against the enemy in the front line and the class struggle between the officers and soldiers in the rear line of battlefield. According to the charac- teristics of sexual politics, this paper studies the phenomenon of sex in these novels, and finds out that sex as the hidden battlefield and one kind of the writing strategies works for ideologies of the two lines and also implies the third front line threatening the soldiers＇ lives. This paper analyzes how in the World War II novels the authors condemn the war and the modem power through a va- riety of sexual behavior, involving heterosexual sex, homosexual sex and sexual violence. However, when sex becomes a tool of political expression, it loses its original meaning and bears too much expectation from authors and readers.