空间中的性别政治:《华尔兹舞曲》的空间批评解读

Gender Politics in Space:A Spatial Critique of The Waltz

列斐伏尔的"空间三一论"强调实体与实体的相互关系,坚持空间动态体现社会现实,展示社会关联。多萝西·帕克文本中的性别政治问题本质上体现为空间问题。帕克在短篇小说《华尔兹舞曲》里通过女主人公的内心独白,巧妙地将现实与想象、外界与内界相融合,构建起精神、文化和社会多维度的空间图像,呈现出美国20世纪20—30年代女性所遭受的广泛的性别主义、性别压迫与性别规训。文本中的秩序颠覆与话语抗争实质上是一种质疑和挑战男权至上或男女二元对立性别"空间表征"的"空间实践",目的在于建构女男二元对立的"表征空间"。这种对性别空间政治样态的精心规划与演绎,折射出包括帕克在内的美国女性对传统性别空间的质疑与强烈的自我空间诉求。

Henri Lefebvre＇ s ＂spatial triad＂ emphasizes the interrelation among entities, and holds that spatial dynamics embody social reality and display social connection. The issue of gender politics in Dorothy Parker＇ s text is essentially that of space. Through the protagonist＇s interior monologue in The Waltz, Parker artfully connects the reality with imagination, the outside world with inner world, into a multidimensional spatial picture of spirit, culture and society, which helps to present the sweeping sexism, sexual suppression and sexual discipline over American women in the 1920s-30s. The subversion of traditional order and struggle for female discourse in the story are, in fact, ＂spatial practices＂ for woman to question and challenge the ＂representation of space＂ in male supremacy or man-woman dichotomy, so as to build a ＂representational space＂ that woman is over man. These elaborate design and presentation of gender politics in space not only reflect Parker＇ s and American women＇ s query of traditional gender space, but also their strong appeal for self-space.