【作者】 王玲；

【导师】 张叉；

【作者基本信息】 四川师范大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2015， 硕士

【摘要】 英国现当代作家萨拉·沃特斯(1 9 6 6—)以描绘维多利亚时期另类的女性故事而著称,她的小说文笔细腻、悬念迭起,呈现了后维多利亚时期英国女性实现自我认同与追寻真爱的历程。她创作的作品获得了不少奖项,受到了主流媒体与同性恋文学界的好评。《荆棘之城》是她的代表作,这部作品描写英国维多利亚时代处于边缘地位的女同性恋的故事,如实地反映了当时的社会风貌,受到了广泛的关注。国内外对其作品的研究基本围绕着新历史主义、创新的叙述方式和女性主义三个方面展开,而女性主义的研究只侧重于自由女性主义和女同性恋女性主义,本文则运用性别研究方法的分支,激进女性主义和酷儿理论对萨拉·沃特斯的写作目的进行了解读。全文由引言、第一章至第三章和结论五个部分组成。引言部分在简单介绍萨拉·沃特斯的文学成就之后,对其代表作《荆棘之城》的研究进行了文献综述,阐述了本论文选题的目的、意义、研究方法,同时,还对,本文的理论基础,即激进女性主义和酷儿理论进行了必要的概述。第一章对作者在《荆棘之城》中所体现出的父权制社会对女性的压迫问题进行了剖析。本章从依赖性的家庭地位、低下的社会地位和被忽视的经济地位三个方面分析了女性在客观的身份认同方面的从属地位;从不平等的教育、陈腐的道德观念和不公平的宗教传统三个方面分析了女性在主观的意识形态方面的从属地位,指出了作者由描述父权制社会中的受害者来唤醒现代读者对女性问题的重视的目的。第二章分析了作者在《荆棘之城》对父权制社会进行的解构。本章列举了作者笔下虚伪的、卑鄙的和懦弱的男性形象,并通过这种丑化使男权走下神坛;还列举了阴险的、缺席的和残忍的母亲形象,并通过这种颠覆挑战了女性的角色分配。本章还对维多利亚时期的各社会阶层进行了另类重绘,实现了对父权制社会的解构。第三章阐述了作者在《荆棘之城》中构建新的社会性别制度的设想,也是本论文的创新性所在。本章引入了酷儿理论的基本主张来分析女性意识的觉醒,由女性实现自我认同和经济独立证明了姐妹关系的重要性,并通过分析酷儿理论和激进女性主义的关系来提出作者构建新的社会性别制度的构想。结论部分阐明了作者的深层写作目的,即鼓励现代女性联合其他被边缘化的人一起通过争取平等、完善的教育来认识自己的价值,并鼓励人们忽略种族的、性别的以及其他所有的歧视,尊重每个个体的差异和不同的性倾向。通过实现个体对心理性别的自由选择来逐渐地消除性别的两极分化、推翻父权制,并最终在意识形态方面构建起新的社会性别制度。更多还原

【Abstract】 Sarah Waters (1966-) is a British contemporary writer famous for writing stories of maverick women in Victoria Age. Her works describe how the women in Victoria Age realize their self-identity and how they search for true love with delicate writing skills and full suspense design. Sarah’s works bring her many awards in literature and great praise from homosexual literary critics and mainstream media. As her representative novel, Fingersmith received widespread concerns because of her faithful description of Victorian Age and her concentrating on the stories of lesbian in marginal position. The studies on Fingersmith abroad and at home focus on Neo-historicism, Narrative style and Feminism. And this thesis attempts to interpret Sarah Waters’ writing purpose of Fingersmith from the perspective of two branches of gender study:Radical Feminism and Queer Theory.This thesis consists of five parts:Introduction, Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three and Conclusion.Introduction touches upon the life story and literary accomplishments of Sarah Waters and the synopsis of Fingersmith. It focuses on the literature review of Fingersmith, the purpose, significance and methods of the research of the thesis. It outlines Radical Feminism and Queer Theory as the theoretical basis of the research of the thesis.Chapter One exposes the female oppression of patriarchal society in the text. It analyzes the objective subordinate status of women in identity from dependent family status, low social status and slighted economic status. It analyzes the subjective subordinate status of women in ideology from educational inequality, stale moral values and unfair religious traditions. It summarizes that Sarah Waters’ purpose of describing the victims of the patriarchal society is to call the modern readers’ attention to female issues.Chapter Two tries to show Sarah Waters’ effort on deconstructing the patriarchy. It lists out some hypocritical, scoundrel and cowardly male images and makes the male authority step down the altar through this kind of uglification. It also gives some examples of insidious, absent and brutal mother’s images and challenges the female role assignment by this kind of subversion. It also redraws the Victorian society of different classes and realizes the deconstruction of patriarchy society.Chapter Three expounds the hypothesis of Sarah Waters to build a new social gender system and this is the innovation of this thesis. It employs Queer Theory to analyze the awakening of female consciousness and proves the importance of sisterhood by realizing self-identity and economic independence. It puts forward Sarah Waters’idea of constructing a new social gender system by analyzing the relationship between Radical Feminism and Queer Theory.Conclusion points out that the deep writing purpose of Sarah Waters, that is, she wants to encourage contemporary women to combine the other marginalized people to strive for equal and complete education. She believes that through the education they can appreciate their own value, ignore racial, gender and other discriminations, respect the differences between individuals and esteem the sexual orientations that differ from mainstream. Finally, through the formation of free choice in psychological gender, gender inequality will be eliminated, the patriarchal society will disappear and a new system of social gender in terms of ideology will come into being gradually.更多还原