身体残缺与社会污名——解读露西·格里利的《一张脸的自传》

Medical scarring and social stigma:on Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of A Face

20世纪末,美国的疾病/残疾自传获得空前发展,作家大多为受过高等教育的年轻女性,露西·格里利(Lucy Grealy)就是其中的佼佼者。与传统的疾病/残疾自传不同,格里利将自传作为一种政治诉求的手段,公开挑战父权社会倡导的以完美健全身体为主导的价值观,抗议残疾女性在社会上遭到的耻辱和污名。残疾并不只是绝对意义上的生物医学范畴,更是一种社会文化建构。

At the end of the twentieth century,a great number of life writings of disease and illness were published in America,mostly written by highly educated females,among whom Lucy Grealy was an outstanding example.In Her Autobiography of a Face,she protests against the body politics in the patriarchal culture which idealizes bodily perfection and prompts the stigmatization of women who are disfigured and disabled.Her memoir not only is an antidote to stigma,but also expresses the idea that the anomalousness of her body is more a social construct of dominant ideology than a biological aberration.