女性视角下的女性与战争——评帕特·巴克的小说《特洛伊的女人们》

War from the Perspective of Women:A Review of Pat Barker’s The Women of Troy

帕特·巴克在《特洛伊的女人们》中以第一人称女性视角又一次对《伊利亚特》重写和戏仿。本文通过分析特洛伊女性作为他者的战争创伤,围绕唱歌、洗热水澡和助产,探讨女性内部形成的主体性思维,以皮洛斯杀死普里阿摩司、破坏古希腊“好客礼”为切入点,聚焦男性气质和女性气质,揭露英雄主义中暗含男性也是受害者,强调破除战争悲剧的逻辑不是交换而是友爱,用友爱来解构自我中心主义的暴力,这对解决当下地缘政治、社会冲突问题具有启示意义。

In her new novel The Women of Troy,Pat Barker again rewrites and parodies the Iliad from the frst-person female perspective.This paper analyzes the Trojan women’s war trauma as the Other,and explores the formation of their subjective thinking through singing,taking hot baths and delivering babies.It focuses on masculinity and femininity in the story of Pyrrhus’killing of his father’s guest-friend to reveal that men are also the victims of heroism.It emphasizes that the key to eliminating the tragedy of war lies not in exchange but in philia,which is used to deconstruct violence resulting from egocentrism.This is instructive for solving problems of geopolitical and social confict.