论欧茨《自我封闭》中的身份认同

On the identity issues in I Lock My Door Upon Myself by Oates

欧茨在中篇小说《自我封闭》中塑造了一个与众不同的白人女性形象,通过描写女主人公的一生揭示了女性主义作家在探讨女性身份时容易忽略的主体性危机问题,试图从女性和以女性为代表的少数族群自身寻找身份认同的出路。文章运用精神分析学说尤其是拉康的相关理论分析女主人公伊迪丝自我身份认同失败的原因,并结合欧茨的个人经历和创作观来讨论女性书写作为女性身份建构手段的可能性。

In her novella I Lock My Door Upon Myself,American female writer Joyce Carol Oates represented to her readers an unusual white woman named Calla.Through telling Calla s life story,Oates disclosed the problem of subjective crisis that has been ignored by many feminist writers.Applying the theories of psychological analysis,this paper will analyze why the deconstruction of a series of binary relations and the total refusal of“the others”cannot lead to the wholeness of identity.It also discusses whether the female writing can help to construct female identity from the experience of Oates and her view on writing.