莫里森小说《爱》的女性主义身体政治研究

On the Feminist Body Politics in Toni Morrison’s Love

身体不仅仅具有生物学意义,它也是政治、文化、经济铭刻的场所。在莫里森的小说《爱》中,留心和克丽丝汀争斗一辈子,却逃不出男权代表柯西的权力渗透和规训。女性的身体或被当做商品出卖和使用,或遭到贬损和惩罚,而她们却对此缄默不语,原因在于男权社会的价值理念的内化及女性主体意识的丧失。莫里森通过身体叙事揭示黑人女性身体被权力关系规训,并因此鼓励黑人女性像朱妮尔一样掌握身体主动权,倡导建立姐妹情谊,构建男女和谐的两性关系,以此确立女性主体性。

Human body is not only a physical form but also a place where political, cultural and economical vestiges are fully shown. In Morrison’s novel Love, bodies of black females have been treated as commodities and been belittled and punished, whereas black women were always silent about it. The reason lies in the internalization of the male-dominating culture and the loss of their own subjectivity. Morrison revealed the black female bodies were disciplined by the power relationships, and therefore, encouraged black women to act like Junior who takes the initiative of her body to build up sisterly affection and harmonious gender relation, hence, female subjectivity.