荒诞世界里的现实——爱德华·阿尔比戏剧男性权利话语分析

The Realism in Absurd World——Analysis of Male Discursive Power in Edward Albee's Plays

西方男性研究理论认为,男性身份和男性身体所涉及的权力话语关系建构于社会意识形态之上,随历史、文化和社会条件变化,具有被颠覆和重构的社会属性。美国知名剧作家爱德华·阿尔比(Edward Albee)在其几部代表作品中塑造了一系列缺失"男子气质"的男性人物。他们频频遭受来自于异性的语言暴力,在权利话语争夺的博弈中屡遭失败,逐渐被社会所边缘化或沦为女性的附属。男性人物的集体失语不仅颠覆了美国历史上长期以来形成的传统男性气质,更颠覆了父权制占主导地位的社会主流意识形态,体现了阿尔比荒诞戏剧的批判现实主义特色。

According to western men＇s theory, the discursive power associated with men＇s identity and body is constructed beyond the social ideology and changed with history, culture and society. It has the quality of being subverted and reconstructed. The male characters in Edward Albee＇s plays are i passive, emasculated and play the roles of being defeated and alienated. Albee＇s portrayal of the dis- torted sexuality relationship, especially the emasculated male characters, proves him to be a serious critic who subverts the long-rooted main stream ideology in which the conventional male images are constructed.