“浪漫爱情”的幻灭:加勒比女性意识与女性话语探微

Disillusion of Romantic Love:Female Consciousness and Female Discourse in Anglophone-Caribbean Women's Writings

奴隶制、欧洲殖民历史与后殖民历史语境赋予加勒比女性不同的生活体验与阐释视角,从19世纪初玛丽·普林斯的奴隶叙述,到20世纪初简·里斯的现代主义女性叙述,再至20世纪后期牙买加·金凯德的后殖民女性叙述,跨越时空与地缘差异的加勒比女性作家,以讲述加勒比女性浪漫爱情幻灭之外在形态,展现加勒比女性意识发展之内在实质,映射出加勒比女性话语建构的历程。

Slavery,European colonial history and post-colonial context endow Caribbean women with different life experiences as well as interpretation perspectives towards romantic love.This article explores the disillusion of romantic love concealed in Anglophone-Caribbean women's writings,represented by Mary Prince with her slave narratives in the 19th century,Jean Rhys with her modernist narratives in the early 20th century and Jamaica Kincaid with her post-colonial narratives,to expose how Caribbean women's female consciousness is developed and how Caribbean female discourse is constructed.