《别名格雷斯》中的历史书写与身体美学

Historical Writing and Body Aesthetics in Alias Grace

在小说《别名格雷斯》中,阿特伍德以重写历史人物格雷斯为契机,把湮没在宏大历史话语中的声音归还女性,把女性身体从历史暗影中置于当代身体与空间哲学的烛照下,揭示女性身体在知识权力话语下被规训、被刻写的处境,探讨女性身体在日常空间实践中的能动性、多元性、流动性,以及反抗与逃脱男性权威空间的革命性,并以身体为记忆载体,探讨女性在回忆切身生命体验的过程中缝合身体、生成自我的可能,从而将鲜活的个体生命写入历史之中,并启发我们对于女性身体的辩证思考。

In Alias Grace,Atwood rewrites the story of Grace,a historical figure,returning to women the voice obliterated in the grand historical discourse and placing female body from the historical shadow in the light of modern body and space philosophies.In the novel,Atwood reveals the fact that female body is disciplined and inscribed by the knowledge-power discourse,and she explores the mobility and diversity of the female body in daily space practice and its revolutionary nature of resisting and escaping from the male authority space,and investigates the possibility for women to reconstruct their body and create themselves through recalling their body experience,thus recording the vivid individual life into history and inspiring a dialectical contemplation on the female body.