黑人女性的身体诉求——酷读《秀拉》

Black Women's Body Appeal: Interpretation of Sula

人类社会的历史是一部对身体管控的历史,女性身体的物质化过程是建构异性恋男权社会制度的基础,从而制造了女性被压迫、被宰制的痛苦历史。异性恋男权社会确立了二元对立的性别观,规制了人类的性取向,通过物化女性的生育功能,贬损女性的身体,来限制和囚禁女性的性自由。美国当代黑人女作家托尼·莫里森的小说《秀拉》,描绘了祖孙三代黑人女性对黑人传统社会两性认识的否定,追求性的自由权利,抵制生育功能,通过这一系列身体抗争来诉求和抵御黑人社会对女性的压制,表达了对强制异性恋机制的不满和希望松动异性恋机制对黑人女性压迫的强烈愿望。

The human history is the history of body controlling;the materialization process of women’s body is the base of setting up the heterosexual hegemony,which creates women’s oppressed and exploited history.The heterosexual hegem-ony establishes the gender’s binary opposition view,regulates the human sexual orientation,derogates the women’s body by materializing the females’fertility function,and gets to the purpose of confining the women’s sexual freedom.Sula, the novel written by the American contemporary black novelist,Toni Morrison,tells the stories of three generations’re-sistance of the oppression by denying the traditional gender view,pursuing the right of free sexuality,and resisting the fertility in the black family,and expresses the resentment against heterosexuality mechanism and hopes to alleviate the oppression to black females.