“无名女子”之名——《女勇士》和《等待野蛮人》中的女性主义叙事

No Name Woman's Identity in The Woman Warrior and Waiting for the Barbarians

美国华裔女作家汤亭亭的《女勇士》和南非诺贝尔文学奖获奖作家库切的《等待野蛮人》这两部讽喻小说中各有一位神秘的"无名女子"主人公——《女勇士》叙述者的姑姑和《等待野蛮人》中的蛮族女孩。比较阅读后发现,两位无名女子都是男权专制体制的受害者,她们没有身份,没有地位,在不幸和沉默中她们以女性特有的柔弱方式强烈控诉和抨击着父权政治、霸权主义,主张了自己的存在价值。

The two allegorical novels, The Woman Warrior by Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston and Waiting for the Barbarians by South African writer, winner of Nobel Prize in literature J. M. Coetzee, each has a mysterious no name woman as its protagonist, i.e. the narrator's aunt in the former and the barbarian girl in the latter. After a comparative reading, this paper finds that the two women, with no name, thus no identity, no status, are victims of patriarchal and tyrannical systems. However, among their ill fate and silence, they claim their existence by articulating strong rebellious voices against hegemony and male chauvinism in their feminist delicate ways.