文化、种族与性别——论《中性》的多重混杂性

Culture, Race and Gender——Hybridity in Middlesex

《中性》是美国作家杰弗里·尤金尼德斯的普利策小说奖获奖作品。在《中性》中,混杂性概念贯穿整部小说,尤其是在文化、种族以及性别三方面体现得尤为明显。本文旨在探究小说中"两希文化"的文化杂糅、移民与全球化所带来的种族融合,以及中性人卡尔身上介于男女两性之间的性别混杂。通过文化、种族与性别的多重混杂性,尤金尼德斯打破了强弱文化、优劣种族与男女两性之间存在的二元对立,并通过以上三方面的混杂性,在小说中构建了一个供弱势群体自由生存、发展、充满可能性的"第三空间"。

Middlesex is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Novel written by Jeffrey Eugenides. The idea of hybridity penetrates throughout the whole novel, especially in the respects of culture, race and gender. This paper aims to analyze the cultural hybridity of Hebraism and Hellenism, racial hybridity brought by immigration and globalization and the gender hybridity of male and female in protagonist Cal. Eugenides shatters the binary oppositions in culture, race and gender and creates a third space for the marginalized to live and develop freely through the cultural, racial and gender hybridity.