黑人女性身份建构研究——以《斯苔拉如何回到最佳状态》为例

A Study on the Identity Construction of Black Women in Terry McMillan's How Stella Got Her Groove Back

文章运用后殖民女性主义理论,考察当代美国黑人女性作家麦克米兰的小说《斯苔拉如何回到最佳状态》中的女性身份建构问题及其所蕴涵的身体、劳动性别分工和种族观念。麦克米兰的作品关注当代美国黑人女性的生存状况,其笔下的女性人物尽管生活在后民权主义时代,但仍然会遭遇性别、种族甚至阶级等方面的歧视与压迫。斯苔拉作为这些女性的典型代表,勇于挑战性别规范、冲破劳动分工观念束缚,以开放、自主的心态积极建构自我身份,彰显了作者关于女性身份问题所作的时代思考。

With post-colonial feminism as the theoretical support, the paper has examined the problem of identity construction and the implications of body, gender labor difference and race in Terry McMillan＇s novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Although they were living in the post-civil right movement age, women characters in her novels were still troubled by gender oppression and racial discrimination. Stella, as the representative of these women, dared to break the gender and race regulations and construct her identity as a black woman, which clearly demonstrated McMillan＇s consideration of problem of identity construction.