《他们》中的她们——乔伊斯·卡洛尔·奥茨笔下的女性与暴力

Women in Them: Joyce Carol Oates' Female Characters and Violence

美国当代女作家乔伊斯·卡洛尔·奥茨善于描写暴力,把人们压抑在心头的恐惧与不安诉诸笔端。其代表作《他们》在表现女性人物与暴力的关系的同时,反映了以男性为中心的意识形态给女性造成的肉体与精神的伤害。小说抓住并反映了美国六七十年代动荡不安的社会精神,揭示了暴力之下隐藏的女性的悲哀与无奈。

As an important contemporary American woman writer, Joyce Carol Oates often depicts violence in order to write about the fear and tension lurking in common peoples hearts. In her masterpiece Them, Oates shows the effects of male violence on her female characters, and also demonstrates the physical and spiritual devastations of malecentered ideology on women. The novel captures and manifests the turbulent social mentality of the 1960s and 70s in the United States, revealing the sadness and helplessness of women characters' victimization under violence. 