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題 名 | “The Woman Does Not Exist”: Femininity in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus |
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作 者 | Tsai, Chia-chin; | 書刊名 | 中山人文學報 |
卷 期 | 23 民95.冬 |
頁 次 | 頁91-110 |
分類號 | 873.57 |
關鍵詞 | 普世女人; 陰性特質; 扮妝; 陰性不完全; 陽性幻象; 陰性行動; The woman; Femininity; Masquerade; The feminine not-all; Masculine fantasy; Feminine act; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
中文摘要 | 本篇論文從拉岡精神分析的角度分析安琪拉•卡特的小說《馬戲團之夜》中所呈現的陰性物質;本文起始先是探討拉岡與女性主義論者如伊希葛黑與巴特勒就陰性特質與扮妝這兩個概念的見解,進而指出拉岡對於陰性物質的洞見以及他對「普世女人」(the Woman)這個概念的質疑有助於重新解讀卡特這部小說對於陰性物質的描繪。在本文的第一部部分,筆者將援引拉岡「性分化」(sexuation)與「普世女人」的論點,說明小說中長有變翼的女人飛芙其實象徵著陽性幻象(masculine fantasy)中的普世女人;第二部分著重在拉岡所謂的「陰性不完全」(the feminine not-all)與陰性特質這個幻象虛構之間糾結的關係,並深入探索飛芙作爲幻象物件與男性欲望間的角力。本文最後將闡釋卡特突破陰性特質這個幻象的方式,援引拉岡「陰性行動」(the feminine act)與「陰性不完全」的概念來說明飛芙最後展開所剩單翼之舉如何動搖父權社會的符號形構以及陽性幻象。 |
英文摘要 | This paper, a critical study on Angel Carter's Nights at the Circus, probes into the issue of femininity from a Lacanian perspective. Starting with a dialogue between Lacan and feminists like Irigaray and Butler on the issue of femininity as masquerade, the author would try to make explicit how Lacan's conception of femininity and the Woman would shed new light on the reading of this novel, the longest and perhaps the most complicated one of Carter's works. With recourse to Lacan's graph of sexuation and his interpretation of the Woman as a masculine fantasy underlying in patriarchal culture and ideologies, the first part of this paper would elaborate on how the grotesque bird-woman named Fevvers stand for the universal category of the Woman. In the second part, the focus is placed on the entwined connection between femininity as a fantastmatic construct and the feminine ”not-all” in order to map Fevvers's role as a fantasy object. The question whether Carter reveals a resolution to the impasse regarding femininity as masquerade is explored in the third part, where Fevvers's act of spreading her only wing is interpreted as a feminine act in the Lacanian sense, anact that disturbs the masculine fantasy of femininity as well as the patriarchal symbolic contours. |
本系統中英文摘要資訊取自各篇刊載內容。