女性身份的迷惘与建构——读玛丽·恩迪亚耶的《三个折不断的女人》

Confusion and Construction in Female Identity——Based on Marie Ndiaye's Three Strong Women

玛丽·恩迪亚耶是塞内加尔与法国的混血儿。移民身份及幼年被"遗弃"的遭遇,使得她对地域身份格外敏感。在《三个折不断的女人》中,三位女性的生命轨迹游移在法国和塞内加尔之间。女性地理主义认为,女性与空间有着天然的联系,地域空间是女性经验和意识生发的场所,人的地域身份与生俱来,犹如女性从出生就注定了一般。《三》从表层来看,体现了女性对地域身份的困惑;深层考量,彰显的却是女性深层次的身份迷惘。在《三》中,恩迪亚耶以女性意识操控了作品中的地域空间,使地域空间成为女性的"心理区域"。

Marie Ndiaye was born to a French mother and a Senegalese father. As the second generation of immigrants to France, she is especially sensitive to regions and her own identity; meanwhile the experience of “being abandoned” at an early age strengthened such sensitivity. Her famous novel Three Strong Women reflects exactly what has been haunting her： moving mainly between France and Senegal, three women struggled for their survival, confused about their self iden- tity and inheritance, and even feared repetition of history-within families, as between peoples. As far as Feminist Geogra- phy is concerned, female＇s regional identity is inborn： females are closely connected with regions where they accumulate experience and cultivate consciousness. From the surface level, the novel reflects female＇s confusion in regional identity; from a deep level, the novel is a reflection of female＇s confusion in their self identity. In the book, Ndiaye gives a full play to regions from the angle of women＇s consciousness, making the regions a carrier of “female psychology”.