后现代女性主义视角下的《琐事》

在拉康的象征秩序中,男性是超验的能指,女性扮演的角色是男性主体的"他者"、客体,是从属于男性主体的边缘人物,而边缘的内涵就是被统治、被压抑和被排斥.在《琐事》中,格拉斯贝尔却解构了这种格局,她将女性从男性主体中剥离重建,从被男性中心的意识形态"异化"的状态中解救出来,让女性从一个被动客体转变成具有自我意识的主体,从而颠覆了女性的绝对服从地位,也颠覆了男性的权威.本文拟从后现代女性主义文学批评的视角出发,尝试分析《琐事》中的两性关系和同性关系,揭示格拉斯贝尔对男性神话的消解.

Trifles - In the Perspective of Post-modern Feminism

In Lacan's"symbolic"order,man signifies transcendence,while woman represents the"other"to men.Woman is marginal to men and this marginal woman is subject to man's control.Marginal here is none other than a person being suppressed,oppressed and excluded.However,Glaspell deconstructs this order of woman's marginalization in her Trifles.She refutes and reconstructs the rela- tionship between men and women,relieving women from"alienation"in male-dominated ideology,and turning them from a negative object to an active subject.In this way,Glasbell subverts women's absolute submission as well as men's authority.From a critical per- spective of a post-modem feminist,this paper analyses the changes in the relationship of the same sex and the opposite sex in Trifles in order to reveal Glaspell's exposition of the"myths"of men.