女性心理的独特再现——阿莉·史密斯《饭店世界》的“叙述声音”与性别政治

Unique Representation of Female Psychology——“Narrative Voice” and Gender Politics in Ali Smith’s Hotel World

本文聚焦于《饭店世界》中不断变换的叙事声音,通过援引苏珊·兰瑟的"女性叙述声音"理论,逐一解析个人型叙述声音、作者型叙述声音和集体型叙述声音等三种叙述声音与性别政治的关联,试图由此洞悉小说中边缘女性饱受压迫的生存状态和内心世界。三种叙事声音协同合作,旨在帮助构建女性权威,颠覆异性恋霸权以及削弱男性权威,实现了叙述声音和女性主义意识形态的有机统一。借助小说中的女性声音,作者阿莉·史密斯不仅实现了文学范式上的创新,更表述了她对社会边缘女性坚强勇敢面对生活的期盼。

Focusing on the changing narrative voices of Ali Smith’s Hotel World, this article attempts to examine the repressed living condition and inner world of the marginal women in the novel.In light of Susan Lanser’sconceptual system of "feminist narrative voice",it analyzes the correlation between gender politics and three kinds of narrative voices,namely "personal voice","authorial voice" and "communal voice".It argues that through establishing female authority,subverting heterosexual hegemony and deconstructing male authority,these voices shape narrative voices and feminism into an organic whole.It is by means of her manipulation of female voices in the novel that Smith makes a breakthrough in her writing but also expresses her expectation for the marginal women to face life bravely.