性别表演视域下《野草在歌唱》的主体建构解读

On the Subject Construction in The Grass is Singing from the Perspective of Gender Performance

2007年诺贝尔文学奖得主多丽丝·莱辛在处女作《野草在歌唱》中塑造了一位在命运的洪流中沉浮而又不断进行抗争的女性形象。运用后现代女性主义理论家朱迪斯·巴特勒的性别表演理论来解读女主人公玛丽的性别身份不断变化和流动的问题,能够凸显生活在男权社会南非的穷苦白人女性为重塑自我身份所做出的不懈努力,分析其主体建构失败的根源,进而揭示社会机制和文化权利对性别认同的深刻影响。

Doris Lessing,the winner of Nobel Prize for literature in 2007,depicts a woman striving and struggling in the ups and downs in life in her debut work The Grass is Singing.Aiming at demonstrating the unremitting identity-reconstruction efforts of poor white women living in male-dominated South Africa,this paper explores the changeable and fluid identity of the heroine Mary from the perspective of gender performance theory raised by the postmodern feminist theoretician Judith Butler to analyze the cause of Mary’s failed subject reconstruction and reveal the great influence of social mechanism and cultural rights upon gender identity.