Different from the classic“Red Riding Hood”story,the girl in The Company of Wolves gives us a new image of how a woman is like in a patriarchal society.Carter’s portrayal of this girl withdraws from gender roles an...Different from the classic“Red Riding Hood”story,the girl in The Company of Wolves gives us a new image of how a woman is like in a patriarchal society.Carter’s portrayal of this girl withdraws from gender roles and cultural impressions in traditional works of literature and puts forward new ideas of sexuality,empowerment of women,and virginity.This essay intends to discuss that on the one hand,women can use their bodies as weapons against imbalanced power.On the other hand,Carter describes women’s desire for sex and love through body writing to show their awareness of sexual liberation and to break the male-dominated vision of gender and sexuality so that female gender subjectivity is rebuilt.展开更多
Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activiti...Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activities in the complicated social relations.Experiencing the spatial transformation and conflict between the“feminized”Jewish community in Russia and the“heroized”space in America,the protagonist David shows his subjective desire by gendered performing to reconstruct the gendered subject in spatial movement.展开更多
文摘Different from the classic“Red Riding Hood”story,the girl in The Company of Wolves gives us a new image of how a woman is like in a patriarchal society.Carter’s portrayal of this girl withdraws from gender roles and cultural impressions in traditional works of literature and puts forward new ideas of sexuality,empowerment of women,and virginity.This essay intends to discuss that on the one hand,women can use their bodies as weapons against imbalanced power.On the other hand,Carter describes women’s desire for sex and love through body writing to show their awareness of sexual liberation and to break the male-dominated vision of gender and sexuality so that female gender subjectivity is rebuilt.
基金this paper is funded by Project:“Research on E.L.Doctorow’s Bildungsroman”(18A369),sponsored by Department of Education of Hunan Province.
文摘Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activities in the complicated social relations.Experiencing the spatial transformation and conflict between the“feminized”Jewish community in Russia and the“heroized”space in America,the protagonist David shows his subjective desire by gendered performing to reconstruct the gendered subject in spatial movement.
