《野草在歌唱》对本质主义身份观的颠覆

The Grass is Singing:A Subversion of Essentialist Identity

多丽丝·莱辛的创作不仅再现了她所生活的时代,其深层价值更在于对人们精神的召唤和影响。出版于1950年的《野草在歌唱》揭示了殖民地不同种族、性别、阶级身份下冷漠无爱的人际关系,描写了边缘人物的悲惨命运。本文以本质主义为视角,分析人物对本质主义身份观进行的颠覆,同时探寻该小说的悲剧意义。小说中的人物虽然是本质主义身份观的牺牲者,但更是颠覆者。

Doris Lessing’s works are not only a reflection of her era but also exert a considerable influence on people’s spirit.The Grass is Sing,published in 1950,reveals an indifferent human relationship between different races,genders and identities in the colony,and describes the tragic fate of marginal characters.With the help of the concept of essentialism,this paper tries to analyze the characters’subversion of essentialist identity,while exploring the tragic meaning of the novel.