【作者】 金一丹；

【导师】 张玫玫；

【作者基本信息】 吉林大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2011， 硕士

【摘要】 安吉拉·卡特是二十世纪后期英国最具独创性的作家之一。她的书写风格混合了魔幻写实、哥特式、超现实主义、女性主义和后现代主义等。本文要论述的是卡特的第七部小说《新夏娃的激情》。这是一部以美国内战为背景的反乌托邦小说。小说中卡特大胆的把玩生理性别和社会性别的两分法,呈现给读者一个不同政治、种族、性别团体之间激烈斗争的混乱世界。通过分析小说主人公艾弗林变性前后对性别身份的认知变化,零的男性王国对性别身份的强制性规范和塑造,以及特里斯黛莎的变装,本文探讨了传统生理决定论的性别身份实质和解构,并首次从后现代女性主义社会建构论的角度,尤其是用后现代女性主义的代表人物朱迪斯·巴特勒的性别表演论来解读小说对性别身份的颠覆,即生理性别和社会性别都是持续的,重复的社会表演,都是可以被社会建构的。更多还原

【Abstract】 Angela Carter is one of the greatest British original writers in the late 20th century, known for the originality of her works and writing style, which is a mixture of magical realism, Gothic, surrealism, feminism, postmodernism, etc.. The novel under study here is The Passion of New Eve, Carter’s seventh novel, set in a dystopian United States in Civil War. In the novel, Carter boldly plays with the existing dichotomy between sex and gender, and presents us a chaotic world with the conflicts between different political, racial and gendered groups. Through the textual analysis of the protagonist Evelyn’s changing cognition of gender identity before and after the sexual reassignment, the forcible regulation and shaping of gender identity in Zero’s male-dominated Kingdom, and Tristessa’s drag performance, the thesis explores the nature and deconstruction of traditional biological determinist gender identity, and for the first time illustrates the subversion of gender identity in the novel from the social constructionist perspective of postmodern feminism. By especially employing a major postmodern feminist, Judith Butler’s theory of performativity of gender identity, the thesis argues that Carter subverts the gender identity and proves that both sex and gender are sustained, repeated social performance and can be socially constructed.更多还原