颠覆和重构——福柯权力话语理论视角下《比利·巴思格特》中的女性形象解读

Subversion and Reconstruction:——On Characterization of Women in"Billy Bathgate" From the Perspective of Foucault's Power Discourse

E.L.多克托罗的经典之作《比利·巴思格特》颠覆和解构了传统的女性形象。文章借助福柯的权力话语理论分析了小说中被置于边缘语境中的女性人物,认为比利为主导的男性话语遮蔽了女性人物真实、自主身份意识,隐含父权制权力对女性身体和话语的双重控制,而多克托罗通过女性形象的重塑,实现了对此权力控制的消解和颠覆,展示了叙述世界的主观性和不可靠性。

E. L. Doctorow＇ s ＂Billy Bathgate＂ subverts the stereotyped image of women. Based on Michel Foucault＇ s theory on power-discourse, the paper studies the marginalized women characters filtered through Billy＇ s male consciousness and finds that Billy＇ s male discourse embodies the double control of the patriarchal power over women＇ s body and discourse, while Doctorow skillfully recreates the women characters to subvert and deconstruct that patriarchal power hidden in the text. Meanwhile, the subjectivity and incredibility of the discursive world is manifest.