女性、身体与物质流动——论《云雀之歌》之跨体性生态身份构建

Women, Body and Material Flows: On the construction of transcorporealecological identity in The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark

美国经典女作家薇拉·凯瑟的小说《云雀之歌》探讨了自然于女性身体乃至身份的构建作用。小说中女主人公西娅的艺术之路一直围绕着女性身体和自然的交融而展开,借助物质女性主义的物质动能观,通过分析女主人公西娅从真实感受其身体物质性,并与自然跨时空跨地域动能互动,实现身体重构并重塑生态身份的过程,揭示物质动能观对生态女性主义克服本质主义的困扰,以物质和生态的方式重构女性身份具有积极意义。

The Song of the Lark,written by the classic American author Willa Cather,explores the role of nature in the construction of the female body and even identity.The artistic path of the novel's heroine,Thea,has always revolved around the intersection of the female body and nature.By drawing on the view of agential realism from material feminism,this thesis analyses the process through which the heroine,Thea,realizes the reconfiguration of her body and the reshaping of her ecological identity from the real feeling of its materiality and the agential interaction with nature across time,space and territory.This reveals that the view of agential realism has a positive significance for ecofeminism in overcoming the disturbance of essentialism,which provides an alternative to reconstruct female identity in a material and ecological way.