女性叙事的困境——以小说《后翼弃兵》为例

The Predicament of Female Narrative in The Queen's Gambit

小说中的女性叙事往往会塑造在男性主导的社会中拼搏成功的女性形象,借此唤醒女性的性别意识和主体自觉。然而,女性叙事也会陷入一种困境,主要体现为在男性权力场域中,女性试图挣脱男性权力的束缚,但途径是“矮化”部分男性形象,结果是获得男性共识中的权力。本文以《后翼弃兵》为例,分析小说中成为“女王”的女性形象以及被牺牲的母亲形象,讨论小说中女性叙事呈现的困境,并探索小说以国际象棋为媒介反映女性性别困境的特殊性。

The female narrative in novels is often presented in such way as shaping successful female images in a male-dominated society,so as to awaken women's gender consciousness and subject consciousness.However,female narrative may be in difficult situations,which is mainly reflected in the following way:when the female characters try to break free from the shackles of male power in a male-dominated society,there will usually be some weak male characters in the plot.Through"weakening"male characters,the narrative makes female characters obtain power which is based on the male consensus.The predicament of female narrative in the novel The Queen's Gambit makes an example.The novel has a distinguishing chess theme,based on this,the paper analyzes two kinds of female images:the girl who became the"Queen"and the mothers sacrificed as"Gambit".In analyzing the female images,the paper intends to present the predicament of female narrative and also hopes to make contribution to gender studies.