从边缘走向中心的印度女性——萨尔曼·拉什迪小说中的女性群像

From the Periphery to the Center--Women in Salman Rushdie’s Novels

在塑造和表现权力关系时,性别往往成为后殖民作家们热衷描写的对象。在后殖民文学中,两性关系往往成为前殖民地与西方宗主国关系的隐喻。作为流散作家的拉什迪,在塑造女性形象时也采取了这一策略。在他的作品中,男性丧失了两性关系中的核心地位,从中心退缩到边缘,而女性则大多摆脱传统文学中被动、柔弱、依赖、失语的模式,从边缘走向中心。

In shaping and representing power relations, gender has always been a favorite topic of postcolonial writers. In post colonial literature, relationship between male and female is often a metaphor of former colonies and western suzerains. Salman Rushdie, a diasporic writer, has also adopted this strategy in his novels. In his writing, the male characters lose the core position in sexual relations, retreating from the center to the edge while women, different from those passive, weak and dependent images in the traditional western literature, are from the periphery to the center.