论胡塞尼《灿烂千阳》中的“姐妹情谊”

On the Sisterhood in Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns

阿富汗作家胡塞尼的《灿烂千阳》以阿富汗战乱为背景,从玛丽雅姆和莱拉的悲惨命运入手,探究这两位不同背景、性格迥异的女性同样陷入悲惨命运的原因,不仅在于阿富汗的连年战乱,更在于其社会中深重的男权文化所带来的多重压迫。进而,结合两人各自命运的发展变化,展现了两位普通的阿富汗女性为求生存所怀抱的希望、梦想及对命运的不懈抗争,肯定了"姐妹情谊"在女性意识觉醒过程中所起的重要作用,正是"姐妹情谊"的缔结助其突破重重障碍,最终寻找到一条使女性从压迫和苦难中获得自由解放的道路:在父权制社会语境下,女性必须团结起来打破父权制的束缚,争夺话语权,用集体的声音为边缘化的女性说话。

Khaled Hosseini, in his A Thousand Splendid Suns, takes the Afghanistan war as the background and from the perspective of the tragic fates of the Mariam and Laila, explores the reasons for the tragedies of the two women with different background and personalities. The reasons lie in not only the years of Afghanistan war but also the multiple oppressions brought by the patriarchal culture deeply rooted in society. Then with the development of their course of life, the two ordinary Afghan women's dream and hope for survival and their persistent struggle against fate are displayed, and the importance of the 'sister friendship' in the process of female consciousness' awakening is affirmed. Such 'sisterhood' helps them to break barriers and to seek a road to women's freedom and liberation from the oppression and suffering. This proves that, in the patriarchal society, women should unite to smash the bondage of the patriarchal system and to win their rights of expression, as a collective voice to speak for the marginalized women.