摘要
本文以托尼·莫里森的最后一部小说《上帝救助孩子》中的女性商品化为切入点,分析以主人公布莱德为代表的当代女性在消费社会下被商品化的现象,认为消费社会让布莱德身体、形象逐步商品化,从而导致其思想观念慢慢物化,陷入与自我和他人相处的困境。然而作为消费对象的布莱德最终开启了自我寻找之旅,抵抗被商品化的命运,寻到了一度迷失的自我。莫里森通过小说批判了消费社会下的女性商品化现象及其对于女性自身的异化和健康人际关系的破坏。
This paper explores Toni Morrison’s latest work God Help the Child from the perspective of the commodification of female.The protagonist Bride as a successful African woman is still commodified in the consumer society where her body is used as a consumed object and she gains success by adorning her body in such a consumer society.After gaining enormous financial success,she is simultaneously stuck in the loss of self-identity and dilemma of interpersonal relationships.Finally,Bride starts her journey of self-searching to defy the fate of being commodified.In this novel,Morrison criticizes the phenomenon of the commodification of female in the consumer society and exposes its detrimental effects on women’s living experience.
出处
《复旦外国语言文学论丛》
2022年第1期70-75,共6页
Fudan Forum on Foreign Languages and Literature
基金
国家社科基金一般项目“当代非裔美国文学中的城市书写研究”(18BWW090)的阶段性成果
关键词
《上帝救助孩子》
消费社会
女性
商品化
God Help the Child
the consumer society
female
commodification
