《虹》中的性别空间与流动性

Gendered space and mobility in The Rainbow

在D.H.劳伦斯的小说《虹》中,流动性充当了一种空间能动性形式,是女性人物反抗不平等的性别空间秩序、建立更自由和更解放的空间形态的重要因素。女主人公厄秀拉的流动性不仅打破了家庭空间和公共空间的划界对女性自由的禁锢,而且创造出了能够颠覆去人性化和机械化的社会体制的另类的空间愿景。厄秀拉的流动性最终在机械世界内部开辟出了具有第三空间性质的多孔空间。这种空间能够实现个人自由和文化再生。这部小说是劳伦斯试图通过女性的流动性来救赎被父权-机械意志禁锢的英国文化的乌托邦冲动的文学表达。

In D.H.Lawrence's novel The Rainbow,mobility serves as a form of spatial agency in that it is a crucial element both in the female characters'resistance to the unequal gendered spatial order and in the construction of more liberating and emancipatory spatial formations.Ursula's mobility has not only broken the confinement imposed by the regimentation of domestic and pub-lic spaces on women's freedom,but also created an alternative spatial vision that subverts the dehumanizing and mechanical social system.Ursula's mobility creates holey spaces of third-space character within the mechanical world,which would effect personal freedom and cultural regeneration.This novel is a literary expression of Lawrence's utopian impulse to redeem through female mobility an English culture that is fettered by the patriarchal-mechanical will.