从女性哥特解读麦卡勒斯作品的颠覆性

发布时间：2018-02-12 09:57

本文关键词： 麦卡勒斯女性哥特怪异边缘化颠覆　出处：《复旦大学》2012年硕士论文　论文类型：学位论文

【摘要】：卡森麦卡勒斯是二十世纪美国南方一位独特的女作家,在其短暂的生命中创作了不少的文学作品。她着力表现人类的精神孤独,所以评论界普遍认为其作品是人类精神孤独状态的寓言,而相对忽视了作家对美国南方社会问题和南方文化的关注与批判。本文选取了麦卡勒斯写于二十世纪四十年代的三部重要作品,即《心是孤独的猎手》,《伤心咖啡馆之歌》和《婚礼的成员》为研究对象,从女性哥特的视角来解读其作品对当时南方主流社会文化的挑战与批判。女性哥特是把女性主义和哥特手法相结合而产生的一个研究领域,但目前学界对其没有统一明晰的界定,所以在本文中女性哥特主要是指运用哥特手法对社会边缘人的描绘与关注。作为在美国南方成长起来的女性作家,麦卡勒斯在其作品中关注女性人物,但其着力描绘的女性角色有着各种怪异之处,与南方主流文化所要求的南方淑女形象相去甚远。除了女性人物,麦卡勒斯在作品中对社会边缘人给予了高度关注,她笔下的角色都是社会中失去话语权的边缘人物。所以本文从女性哥特视角,着重分析了麦卡勒斯作品中的三位女性人物和两位边缘化男性角色,进而讨论女作家的创作策略和创作目的,并揭示出：麦卡勒斯是一位具有强烈社会干预意识的作家,她的作品不是简单的孤独寓言,而是通过对社会边缘人的描绘和关注,对当时南方的主流文化做出了挑战与颠覆,进而引发人们对普遍接受的社会文化价值观进行重新思考。
[Abstract]:In 20th century, Carson McCullers was a unique female writer in the South of the United States, who wrote a lot of literature in her short life. So critics generally think that his work is a parable of the state of human spiritual loneliness. This paper chooses three important works written by McCullers in 1940s. "the Heart is the Lonely Hunter," the Song of the sad Cafe "and" the members of the Wedding "were the subjects of the study." From the perspective of female Gothic, the author interprets the challenge and criticism of her works to the mainstream social culture of the South at that time. Female Gothic is a research field that combines feminism and Gothic techniques. But at present, there is no uniform and clear definition of Gothic in academic circles, so in this paper, female Gothic mainly refers to the depiction and concern of the marginalized people in society by using Gothic technique. As a female writer who has grown up in the South of the United States, McCullers focuses on female characters in his works, but her portrayal of female characters has all sorts of weirdness, which is far from the southern lady image required by the mainstream culture of the South, except for female characters. McCullers pays great attention to the marginalized people in her works, and her characters are all marginal characters who lose their right to speak in the society. This paper focuses on the analysis of three female characters and two marginalized male characters in McCullers' works, and then discusses the creation strategy and purpose of the female writers, and reveals that McCullers is a writer with a strong sense of social intervention. Her works are not a simple lonely fable, but through depicting and paying attention to the marginalized people, she challenges and subverts the mainstream culture of the South at that time, and then causes people to rethink the universally accepted social and cultural values.
【学位授予单位】：复旦大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2012
【分类号】：I712.074

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