Between the Theater and the Novel

E. Sun
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Chapter 4 investigates the domestic novel as a literary form in which the woman as protagonist and the site of the household come to the fore as subject and scene of modernity. It concentrates on novels by two of the form’s pre-eminent practitioners in English and Chinese, Jane Austen and Eileen Chang, who have drawn comparisons to each other for their clear, even cold-eyed, depictions of social and economic constraints on femininity and the complexity of feminine interiority. It reads together Austen’s 1814 Mansfield Park and Chang’s 1967 novels, Yuannü and The Rouge of the North, rewritings of her 1943 novella Jinsuo ji. These novels show how changes in the articulation of femininity in different historical and cultural contexts take place in correlation to redefinitions of the status of the household itself as site of modern life. Each novel incorporates the medium of theater to restage “woman” as modern agent and spectatorial subject on the plane of the ordinary.
在戏剧与小说之间
第四章研究了家庭小说作为一种文学形式,其中以女性为主角,家庭场所作为现代性的主题和场景而脱颖而出。这本书集中介绍了简·奥斯汀(Jane Austen)和张爱玲(Eileen Chang)这两位杰出的中英文小说实践者的小说,她们对女性气质所受的社会和经济限制以及女性内在复杂性的清晰、甚至冷酷的描写,使她们相互比较。它将奥斯汀1814年的《曼斯菲尔德庄园》和张戎1967年的小说《Yuannü》以及她1943年的中篇小说《金锁记》的改编版《北方的胭脂》结合在一起。这些小说展示了在不同的历史和文化背景下,女性气质的表达是如何发生变化的,这些变化与家庭本身作为现代生活场所的地位的重新定义有关。每一部小说都以戏剧为媒介,将“女人”作为现代的代理人和观众的主体,在平凡的平面上重新上演。
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