以创伤理论视角解读《灶神之妻》中的女性形象

An Analysis of Female Images in The Kitchen God's Wife from the Perspective of Trauma Theory

《灶神之妻》是美国华裔女作家谭恩美的第二部畅销作品,该小说以谭恩美母亲在旧中国的第一次婚姻经历为原型,塑造了一群在日本侵华战争时期饱受压迫和摧残、历经艰辛与磨难的女性形象。该文在创伤理论的研究基础上,从家庭暴力、男权社会和战争暴行三个方面对小说中的女性创伤形象进行了分析与探讨,以期呈露谭恩美对尘封历史的感悟和解读及其对女性命运的审视与关注。

The Kitchen God’s Wife is the second best-selling works of Chinese-American female writer Amy Tan. With the first marriage experience of Tan’s mother in old China as the prototype, this novel shapes a group of female images during the Japa-nese War of aggression against China, who not only suffered from great oppression and destruction but also experienced huge hardship and ordeal. On the basis of trauma theory, this paper analyzed these female trauma images in the novel from three as-pects-domestic violence, patriarchal society and wartime atrocity, with the view to reveal Amy Tan’s perception and interpre-tation of the forgotten history as well as her observation and attention of female fate.