《胡里痕的凯瑟琳》爱尔兰妇女形象

The Image of Irish Women in Cathleen Ni Houlihan

《胡里痕的凯瑟琳》是威廉·巴特勒·叶芝1902创作的民族主义戏剧,以1798年爱尔兰武装起义为背景,剧中凸显爱尔兰男人们为国家独立所作的贡献,反而忽视爱尔兰妇女的遭遇。故从斯皮瓦克的后殖民女性主义视角,分析受到本土父权制和英国殖民主义双重压迫的爱尔兰妇女形象,进而追踪她们是如何被构建成爱尔兰父权社会和英国边缘地带的他者,以及如何丧失发言权继而保持沉默。

Cathleen Ni Houlihan is a nationalistic drama written by William Butler Yeats in 1902,setting a background of the 1798 armed uprising in Ireland.As the play puts great emphasis on Irish men who perform a vital role in the independence of Ireland,it ignores the sufferings of Irish women.This paper analyzes the image of Irish women who are oppressed by both local patriarchy and British colonialism from the perspective of Spivak’s postcolonial feminism.Then,it traces how Irish women are constructed as the other of the Irish patriarchal society and the British marginal areas,and how they lose their rights to speak for themselves and keep silent.