《保姆》的身份认同探析

A Study on Identification of The Baby Sitter

美国后现代作家罗伯特·库弗的经典作品《保姆》,立足不同性别视角,在不同社会阶层对自我以及社会身份的认同中,探索社会伦理和社会观念的变化,去探索关于当时语境中人类生存的境遇和困惑,无疑具有重要价值。在关于"我是谁"的反思和追问当中,保姆和塔克先生等都在寻找自我的存在;在女性和男性各自的性别想象和博弈中,传达着身体成为消费欲望和对象的种种矛盾和不安;在难以跨越的社会阶层沟壑和裂缝中,陈述着社会伦理的沉重与变迁。

As one of the typical masterpieces of Robert Coover The Baby Sitter poses its apparent importance in literature studies in that it tries to explore the changes of social ethics and confusions people are experiencing during certain period of their life through the identification toward the characters themselves and their social relation with others in terms of different gender and social classes. People are seeking the way they exist while reflecting on the question who I am; conflict and uneasiness are conveyed towards the desire for body consumption during the interaction between men and women and within the imagination about their own gender; seriousness and transition of social ethics is also depicted in the giant gap between different social classes.