《罗克珊娜》中现代女性身体僭越的悲剧

Roxana's Tragedy of Body Transgression as a Modern Woman

笛福的小说《罗克珊娜》可以说是一个走在现代性前沿的18世纪英国女性身体僭越的悲剧。其同名女主人公被生活所迫,从最初自愿规训身体的道德女性转变为摒弃作为母亲、妻子的传统家庭责任,利用身体资本成为成功的"女商人"。其僭越的身体虽处处彰显着现代性的特征,但罗克珊娜利用身体讨好父权话语体系来追求个性和幸福的行为势必反过来要受到体制的惩罚,其现代生活的体验也注定要以悲剧而收场。

Defoe＇s novel Roxana is a story about the tragedy of the body transgression of an eighteenth-century British woman to experience modernity. The title heroine in Roxana, forced by life, changes from a woman of morals with a disciplined body to a ＂she-merchant＂ with her body capital by abdicating the duty of a mother and wife. Though her transgressed body bears the characteristic of modernity, Roxana＇ s pursuit of individuality and happiness by catering to the patriarchy will definitely in turn be punished and her body experience of modern life is doomed to be a tragedy.