福莱勃尔视野中的中国妇女——项美丽的中国叙事研究

Flappers and Chinese Women:A Study of Emily Hahn's China Narrative

本文以美国现代女作家项美丽的第一部中国题材小说《太阳的脚步》和她的跨文化体验为研究对象,从弗洛伊德的"替身"定义出发,聚焦小说中的美国白人女子多萝西和民国妇女陈美凤这一对女性形象,探讨作者如何通过跨文化书写和跨文化体验化解美国现代女性身份认同的危机和焦虑。作者把传统性别规范投射到他者身上,通过塑造自我与替身这两个女性形象呈现她身份认同中两股矛盾的力量,即新女性福莱勃尔与传统性别角色之间的张力。二者的协商反射了作者的身份认同与女性主张。与最终不得不向传统妥协的福莱勃尔们不同,项美丽在中国结交了诸多中国现代文人,在与他们的合作中吸收中国文化精髓,巩固自己的女性思想,并成为中美文化交流的先锋,完成了现代女性主体的建构。

From the perspective of ＂the double＂ in Freud＇ s ＂The Uncanny＂, this paper studies the novel Steps of the Sun by American woman writer Emily Hahn and her transcultural experiences by focusing on the two women characters--modem American woman Dorothy Pilgrim and traditional Chinese woman Chen Meifeng, to discuss how Hahn projects the self＇ s double into the other in her transeuhural writing and realizes her feminine identification through negotiation with the other. The differences between the self and other reflect the challenges that American new women flappers posed to American traditional gender norm. Different from other flappers who had to compromise and return to home, Emily Hahn makes friends with Chinese intellectuals, experiences the differentiated modernity of Shanghai in republican period, and creates lots of transcuhural narratives, which contributes to her success as a writer, a promoter of Sino-American cultural interchange, and her modem female subjectivity.