性别的追问--对卡瑞·邱吉尔《九重天》的女性主义阅读

卡瑞.邱吉尔是英国当代著名的女剧作家。她的力作《九重天》描述了女性在父权制下受压迫的状况,向建立在男女社会性别差异和异性恋基础上的传统家庭发起了抨击。她构建了一个反传统,无性别及家庭角色压迫,充满多重性欲的乌托邦,进而解构了本质主义在性别上的二元对立。剧中,邱吉尔把殖民压迫和性别压迫并置,并采用了反串的戏剧技巧,进一步加深了性别压迫的主题。

Questioning Gender Issues in the Patriarchal Society--A Feminist Reading of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine

This paper attempts a feminist reading of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine.As an influential contemporary feminist playwright,Churchill explores in her Cloud Nine the issues of gender and sexual oppression in the patriarchal society by constructing a utopian family where gender and sexual oppression do not exist and man and woman can live peacefully.The author's artistic representation of gender and heterosexuality is reinforced by the merging of colonial and sexual oppression and the theatrical technique of cross-casting in the play.