《冬天的故事》:男权的地图隐喻与女性空间再生产

The Winter’s Tale:The Cartographic Metaphor of Patriarchy and the Reproduction of Female Space

《冬天的故事》具有鲜明的地理空间与地图意识,戏剧的情节推进与人物身份识别随着地理空间与地图背景的转换而完成。对其中的两大地图背景西西里和波西米亚不能做简单的二分法,以文学地图学批评方法考察,两者实质上都是极端男权代表詹姆斯一世形象的隐喻投射。剧中男性对女性权力空间的限制与排斥影射了斯图亚特王朝早期男权复辟过程中性别秩序与社会结构的毁灭与重建,女性权力空间在夹缝与隐蔽状态中消解。剧中女性的回归与复活则展现了女性权力制图与权力空间的再生产力。通过将戏剧文本置于其产生的历史文化语境之中,可以见出莎士比亚隐喻地表达了其对詹姆斯一世王权的焦虑。

The Winter’s Tale has a distinct sense of geographical space and cartography.The promotion of plot and the identification of character in the play are completed with the transformation of geographical space and map background.Sicily and Bohemia,the two major map backgrounds,cannot be simply dichotomized.By examining them with the method of literary cartographic criticism,we can find that they are essentially the metaphorical projection of the image of extreme patriarchy on behalf of James I.The restriction and exclusion of men to women's space of power in the play alludes to the destruction and reconstruction of the order of gender and social structure in the process of patriarchal restoration in the early Stuart dynasty,and the destruction of space for female power in the state of crevice and concealment.The return and resurrection of women in the play shows the reproduction of female power cartography and space of power.By placing the text of play in the historical and cultural context,we can conclude that Shakespeare metaphorically expressed his anxiety about the kingship of James I.