"美丽"的可能与"纯洁"的必要——中国当代文学中女性形象的话语变迁及其文化意义

通过对显示女性外在身体特征的"美丽"或"丑陋"与代表女性内在思想境界的"纯洁"或"淫荡"四个元素及其内涵外延的变异体认,可以清晰地考察出建国后半个多世纪以来中国当代文学中的女性形象所经历的巨大话语变迁.1976年之前女性的"美丽"与"纯洁"有着政治一体化年代特有的鲜明意识形态色彩,改革开放之后"美丽"的突围与在暧昧境地中挣扎的"纯洁"则越来越表现出了消费时代女性话语的新症候.女性话语五十多年来的沧桑流变既是时代观念变动的结果,也有女性主义思潮崛起后的文化原因,更是在不同流通机制运行下文学艺术的不同"叙述"方式使然.

Probability of "Beauty" and Necessity of "Purity": Change of Discourse in the Design of Modem Chinese Women''''s Images in Contemporary Literature and its Cultural Significance

This paper intends to distinguish four types of expressions of "beauty" and "bad-looking" associated with women's body and of "purity" and "immorality" used to describe women's integrity so as to identify the changes in expressions of women's images in contemporary literature since the founding of the People's Republic.Before 1976,women's "beauty" and "purity" were more united with politics and had strong ideological characteristics.Since the reforms,women's "beauty" and "purity" that has been tossing in the field of love have become a key focus of women's discourse under the influence of commercialism.Changes in women's discourse in the past fifty years are both a result of changes in values and a cause for the rise of feminist thinking.They have,moreover,instigated the rise of different styles of "narration" that are circulating in different systems.