后殖民女性主义文学批评的理论视域:以斯皮瓦克的语境化性别理论为例

The Theoretical Horizon of Postcolonialist Feminist Literary Criticism:Spivak’s Contextualized Gender Theory

以斯皮瓦克为代表的后殖民女性主义理论家对欧美白人女性主义理论提出质疑和批判,认为后者在建构女性主义理论时忽略了'女性'概念的内在差异和多元特征,未能表达第三世界和边缘有色群体女性的声音,斯皮瓦克因此提出在不同语境下具体分析性别问题的主张,推进了女性主义理论的全球发展。但是,后殖民女性主义理论家并没有解答不同族裔的性别群体如何借用英文等通用语言形式进行反表征的社会、文化和文学实践的问题。

Postcolonial feminist theorists represented by G.C.Spivak accuse EuroAmerican White feminists of neglecting the diversified and multiple constituents of the concept of'woman',thus silencing the voices of the Third World women and women of color.Spivak further advocates the contextualization of gender in order to analyze gender issues in specific contexts,thus promoting the development of feminism worldwide.However,postcolonial theorists fail to explain how the ethnic women are able to speak their own opinions in social,cultural and literary practices by using English and/or other commonly accepted languages.