“他者”之殇——从《觉醒》和《双鱼星座》看女性他者地位的变与不变

Women as “the Other”—— The Changed and the Unchanged Revealed from a Comparative Reading of the Awakening and Pisces

"他者"是客体、次要和从属的同义语,是波伏娃著名女性主义文论《第二性》的立论基础,是对女性社会地位的精准描述。《觉醒》和《双鱼星座》作为世界女性文学不同时期的重要作品,在揭示女性"他者"地位方面,虽然存在表象上的差异,但本质的相似性和历史的承继性是不可否认的。社会进步中两性关系的改善毋庸质疑,然而,社会学数据支撑的文本分析表明,今日女性"他者"地位的本质,采取了更为隐性的形式,女性争取平等权益的斗争也更呈现新的复杂态势。

＂The other＂,as a philosophical concept,is a synonym of ＂the object＂,＂the insignificant＂and ＂the subordinate. ＂As a word precisely summed up the social position of females in history,it becomes the conceptual basis of Simon De Beauvoir＇s seminal The Second Sex. The Awakening and Pisces,representative works of world female literature,expose respectively the otherness of women in the past and present. Despite their superficial differences in presentation,their inherent similarity and historical successiveness are not denied. The promotion of sexual equality is in no way deniable when human society advances. However,a thorough textual analysis with supportive sociological statistics shows that women＇s otherness takes on recessive form,and women＇s struggle for equality demonstrates new complicacy.