论《思家饭店的晚餐》的女性气质

On Femininities in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

在小说《思家饭店的晚餐》中,安妮·泰勒通过塑造三位生活在美国二十世纪的女性——具有传统理想型女性气质的露丝、具有男性化气质的波尔和具有双性同体化气质的珍妮,反映了传统规约和文化习俗等因素对女性长期的压制和迫害,表达了现代女性在人格、思想和精神层面获得独立的可能性,从而实现了对传统理想型女性气质的反思和对现代理想双性气质建构的探索,并指出了双性同体可以突破传统上男女两性气质的二元对立,帮助个体在适应社会、实现自我价值及建构和谐的两性关系等方面发挥重要的作用。

In the novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant,Anne Tyler portrays three American women living in the 20th century,including Ruth,Pearl and Jane characterized by their respective traditional idealized femininity,masculinized and androgynous features.She denies the long repression and persecution resulted from such factors as traditional convention and cultural customs,and expresses the probability for the modern women to be independent on their personality,thoughts and spirit.As a result,the reflection on the traditional idealized femininities,and the exploration on the construction of the modern androgyny are fulfilled.She also points out that androgyny can break through the traditional binary opposition between men and women,and it plays an important role in helping individuals adapt to the society,realize their self-value,build harmonious relationship between the two genders and so on.