奥克塔维娅·巴特勒与自然/文化分隔--对《异种繁殖》三部曲的生态女性主义解读

Octavia Butler and the Nature-Culture Divide:An Ecofeminist Approach to the Xenogenesis Trilogy

非裔美国科幻小说家奥克塔维娅·巴特勒通过其《异种繁殖》三部曲参与了当代人对种族主义、性别歧视和环境主义等问题的探讨。她对这些社会领域的研究,揭示了它们之间相互联系相互依存的关系,而她在异形语境中对自然的大胆重塑,旨在为许多迫切的社会问题提供可能解决之道。因此,巴特勒直接涉足生态女性主义,这是生态批评的一个分支,专注于在不忽略性别和种族维度的同时分析环境问题。本文将讨论巴特勒在虚构的非裔美国场景中的生态女性主义思想实验,这一场景设定修正了"自然国度"的美式概念。

In her Xenogenesis-Trilogy, African American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler enters the contemporary discourse on racism, sexism, and environmentalism. Her investigations into these specific social fields reveal their interrelatedness and interdependence, while her radical reinventions of nature in an alien context point towards possible solutions to urgent social problems. Butler thus steps right into the field of ecofeminism, a branch of ecocritical discourse that focuses on an analysis of environmental problems without neglecting the categories of gender and race. The following essay will discuss Butler's ecofeminist thought experiments in a fictive African American setting that functions as a revision of US American concepts of "nature's nation".