性别视角下的一篇悖论式文本——《为奴隶的母亲》新解

A Paradoxical Text From a Gender Perspective:A New Explanation of“The Slave Mother”

从性别批评的角度看,左翼作家柔石创作的《为奴隶的母亲》是一篇典型的“悖论式文本”:一方面,通过描写女主人公春宝娘在“典妻”陋习下的悲剧性命运,作家柔石真诚为女性立言,作品因而具备批判男权文化的性别主题内涵;但另一方面,男性创作主体对春宝娘“母性”的过度挖掘与表现,不仅隐含“母性就是女性”的男权主义逻辑,而且更于无形中重构传统的母性神话。漠视女性主体性的“良母”形象塑造,最终成为柔石本人受男权文化观念影响的无意识表露。

From the perspective of gender criticism,left-wing writer Rou Shi’s“The Slave Mother”is a typical“paradoxical text”:on the one hand,describing the tragic fate of the heroine Chunbao’s mother under the habit of“pawning wife”,Rou Shi sincerely speaks for women,and thus the novel has a gender theme connotation that criticizes patriarchal culture;on the other hand,the excessive digging and expression of the“motherhood”of Chunbao’s mother not only implies the patriarchal logic of“motherhood is female”,but also reconstructs the traditional motherhood myth invisibly.The image of the“good mother”who ignores the subjectivity of women eventually becomes Rou Shi’s unconscious exposure to the influence of patriarchal cultural concepts.