谭恩美的关怀伦理观:以《接骨师之女》为例析

Amy Tan's View of Caring Ethic: a Review to The Bonesetter's Daughter

谭恩美自认她在写作中会尝试回答一些道德观问题。《接骨师之女》是她的第四部长篇小说,叙述了一个"三代女性、两对母女"关系变迁的故事,描绘了一幅女性情感历程的宏伟画卷。女性主体失语、伦理关系失序,既是关怀伦理声音式微的表征,更是两种伦理观(公正伦理观与关怀伦理观)之紧张关系的表征。《接骨师之女》集中揭示了关怀伦理观的独特内涵,充分说明了关怀伦理观对于解决个体间冲突所具有的重大意义,并有助于消解公正伦理观一统天下的认知格局。《接骨师之女》从文学的角度描绘了以"爱"为纽带实现"真"与"善"的统一这一根本伦理命题的现实可能性,并赋予"书写"、特别是女性"爱"的书写以特别的伦理意义,具有呼吁人们重视关怀伦理的积极意义。

Amy Tan said she would try to respond to some ethic issues. In her fourth novel,The Bonesetter＇s Daughter,she tells a story of three generations of women,having described a grand emotional history of women. The lost of female subjectivity and the disorder of ethic relationship represent both the falling of caring ethics and the tense relationship between caring ethics and justice ethics. In this novel,the special meanings of caring ethics are revealed to illuminate that the caring ethics is significant in solving conflicts,therefore,make a change to the cognitive structure,in which the justice ethics is prevailing. The Bonesetter＇s Daughter presents a possibility of combining＂true＂and＂kind＂with the bond of＂love＂. The practice of＂writing＂,especially,female＇s＂writing of love＂are given special ethical significance,so as to calls for focusing on the positive side of caring ethics.