道路上的生殖必要性

B. Bellamy
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本文探讨了科马克·麦卡锡获得普利策奖的小说《路》(2006)中的性别动态。它从三个不同的角度切入了小说的后世界末日生存叙事:第一,这个人,这个世界似乎都在反对他;第二种是男孩,他对世界有着基本的开放态度;第三,这个女人流产的叙述。虽然很少有评论家对此进行评论(Nell Sullivan可能是最著名的),但本文认为,这个女人为小说提供了第三种解释途径。她的故事对情节的衔接和成功完成至关重要,但小说并没有呈现出它的讲述方式。借助酷儿理论和马克思主义女权主义分析,本文探讨了一个僵局:《道路》有效地将女性从书中驱逐出去,尽管事实上女性对男人和男孩的繁荣是必要的。我认为这部小说作为叙事的作品,正是因为这个女人的工作流产,以及故事结尾新女人的出现。《道路》创造了一种生殖的命令,将重新开始的幻想与性别意识形态结合在一起。它坚持认为,无论要达到什么未来,女性都必须要生孩子。
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The Reproductive Imperative of The Road
abstract:This article explores the gender dynamic of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road (2006). It engages the novel’s post-apocalyptic survival narrative from three different perspectives within the novel: first, the man, whom the world seems to be set against; second, the boy, who has a fundamental openness to the world; and third, the woman’s aborted narrative. Though few critics take it up (Nell Sullivan is perhaps the most prominent), this article argues the woman offers a third interpretive path through the novel. Her story remains crucial to the cohesion and successful completion of the plot, yet the novel does not present its telling. Drawing on queer theory and Marxist-feminist analysis, this article explores an impasse: The Road effectively banishes the woman from its pages, despite the fact that she is necessary to the flourishing of the man and the boy. I argue that the novel works as narrative precisely because of the aborted emplotment of the woman and the appearance of the new woman at plot’s end. The Road creates a reproductive imperative that binds the fantasy of beginning anew with the ideology of gender. It insists that reaching any future whatsoever means women must have babies.
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