她们死于沉默--《女勇士》中两位女性人物的失语悲剧透析

文章从华裔女作家金斯敦的《女勇士》中的两位女性人物入手,透析文学语境中的弱势群体的失语(压迫性沉默)问题。华裔的中华文化传承当中的性别主义及其沉默策略所制造的压迫性沉默使无名姑姑与月兰姨妈都被禁锢在内化了的女性沉默中,而这沉默自身对她们就是一种压迫。该沉默巨大的破坏性使她们内心经历了一个超过她们自身张力(承受力)的斗争。置身于所谓的“道德的”、“正常的”、“可理解的”与自身不可表述的现实的巨大矛盾之中,不同的个体产生了不同程度的自我否定;不同程度的自我否定则依照不同个体各自的承受力而终结于自杀或疯狂。

They Die of Silence: An Analysis of Tragedies of Two Women Characters in The Woman Warrior

This article is a study on the oppressive silence of the marginal groups in the literary context through an analysis of the tragedies of two women characters in Kingston's The Woman Warrior.The oppressive silence results from the Chinese sexism with its silencing measures that confines No Name Aunt and Moon Orchid in silence.This silence is so oppressive that their inner-self experiences an uncontainable struggle between what is "moral," "normal," "intelligible," and what is their inarticulate reality.And the different degrees of self-denial that it produces ends in suicide or madness according to the different capacities of the individuals.