女性主义叙事学视角下《阁楼上的佛》的解读

An interpretation of The Buddha in the Attic from the perspective of feminist narratology

女性群体被视为弱势群体从而被边缘化的现象由来已久。朱丽·大塚所著小说《阁楼上的佛》揭开被尘封的日本“照片新娘”的往事,让女性得以以文字叙事的方式传达自己的声音,诉说那段被埋没的历史。小说以三重叙述声音构成表层文本,而隐藏文本透露出新娘们对物化女性行为的控诉。多重叙事手法的运用不仅塑造了日本新娘的受害者形象,而且隐含了对男性霸权主义的讽刺和对美国社会种族主义的谴责,在一定程度上为女性写作提供了借鉴。

It has been a long time since women were regarded as a vulnerable and marginalized group,while The Buddha in the Attic,a novel written by Julie Otsuka,gives women an opportunity to deliver their own voices through literature and discloses the buried history of the Japanese"picture brides".The surface text of the novel is made up of three kinds of narrative voices,behind which is the brides′accusation against the objectification of women.The multiple narrative techniques not only help portray the Japanese brides as victims,but also contain the sarcasm of masculine hegemony and the condemnation of the oppression of American society on the immigrants,thus shedding light on feminine writing.