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美国女作家伊迪丝·华顿创作的《快乐之家》、《国家风俗》以及《天真时代》等纽约小说从不同侧面勾勒出妇女消费倾向的改变,以及她们经历转变与适应的过程。作品以白描的手法再现了美国20世纪上半叶妇女作为商品、艺术品以及消费品的情景。本文在消费主义理论观照下阐释商品市场对女性人物婚姻观和自我认同的作用力,指出女性的经济依附状态和社会客体地位弱化了女人的社会角色及身份建构。纽约小说在很大程度上反映了华顿对待消费意识形态的复杂矛盾态度,以及她与主流思想之间的互动关系。
New York novels such as Happy House, Country Customs and Naive Age created by American woman writer Edith Wharton outline the changes of women’s propensity to consume from different aspects and the process of their transformation and adaptation. The work depicts the scene of women as commodities, works of art and consumer goods in the first half of the 20th century in the United States by using a simple sketch. This paper illustrates the role of commodity markets in the marriage and self-identification of female characters under the perspective of consumerism theory, pointing out that women’s economic dependence and social status weaken women’s social roles and identity construction. New York’s novels reflect to a large extent the complicated and contradictory attitude of Wharton toward consumption ideology and her interaction with the mainstream thinking.