《秀拉》:一场独特的人生实验——莫里森对女性成长小说的继承和发展

Sula,an Extraordinary Life Experiment——Morrison's Inheritance and Development of Female Bildungsroman

《秀拉》是莫里森以小说为媒介进行的一场人生实验,旨在检验她心中的叛逆女性能否自由地生存和成长。秀拉僭越了男性的自由,走出了传统的女性空间,开始了自我追寻、自我发现的探索旅程。虽然她的追求是失败的,但她的离家远行、自我追寻、性的体验,甚至她极端个人主义式的彻底反叛,突破了传统女性成长小说的情节模式,标志着女性成长小说发展的新阶段。

Sula is a life experiment of Morrison to test whether a rebellious woman like Sula can live and develop freely. Sula usurps the freedom traditionally reserved for men. She runs away from home,attempts to find her self- identity in the vast world,and embarks on a journey of self- discovery and self-assertion. However,her dream is nowhere to be found,her efforts dashed and on wasteland of the vast world,she is everywhere a stranger. But Sula＇s Odyssey outside home,her attempts for self- discovery,her freedom in sex,and even her solipsistic assertion represent the new stage in the development of the female bildungsroman.