建构与误识——《巴比特》中的符号暴力分析

Construction and Misrecognition——An Analysis of Symbolic Violence in Babbitt

辛克莱·刘易斯的小说《巴比特》描绘了虚构城市泽尼斯中不同形式的符号暴力对人们行为及思想意识的操控。借助法国思想家布尔迪厄的符号暴力理论,分析泽尼斯城中符号消费、男性霸权以及媒介符号三种符号暴力形式的建构与“误识”及其对人们生活状态及精神状态的影响,揭示刘易斯对美国城市化过程中的焦虑与思考。

Sinclair Lewis’s novel Babbitt depicts the manipulation of people’s behaviour and ideology by different forms of symbolic violence in the fictional city of Zenith.Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic violence,he analyses the construction and“misrecognition”of three forms of symbolic violence in the city of Zenith:symbolic consumption,male hegemony and mediated symbols,and their impact on people’s state of life and mental state,revealing Lewis’s anxieties and reflections on the process of urbanization in America.