摘要
《一个好邻居的日记》(1983)是英国女作家多丽丝·莱辛(1919—)后期"现实主义回归"的小说代表作,作品以人到中年的中产阶级事业型女性简·萨默斯20世纪70年代的伦敦都市生活经历为主线,着重讲述了她如何在工作之余通过与老年女性交往,尤其是与莫迪这位毕生挣扎在社会底层的九旬老妪交友,逐渐改变了人生态度的心路历程。本文拟从"恐老症"背后的都市生活方式及其价值导向分析入手,聚焦于简·萨默斯的都市越界之旅,探究作为都市边缘群体的老年女性的身份困境与出路,尝试揭开都市(老年)女性空间所承载的伦理价值及其对西方都市主流价值观提出的质疑和挑战。
The Diaries of Jane Somers,first published in 1984pseudonymously and separately as The Diary of a Good Neighbor and If the Old Could,is Doris Lessing's representative work that marks her return to realism in the last stage of her literary creation.It focuses on the middle-aged,middle-class career woman—Jane Somers's urban life experience in London of the 1970sand relates how she gradually changes her attitude to life through befriending the senior citizens in her off-work time,particularly Maudie—an over-90-year-old working-class woman.Based on an understanding of the urban lifestyle and its value orientation behind gerontophobia/gerascophobia,this thesis,in an analysis of the female protagonist's journey of transgression,explores the collective identity crisis of old women as a marginalized urban group with a view to reveal the ethical values associated with urban female spaces(esp.of old age)as well as the challenge they pose to the mainstream value system of the western urban world.
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2013年第5期29-40,157,共12页
Foreign Literature
基金
厦门大学中央高校基本科研业务费项目(ZK1003)
