Through the Looking Glass of Madame Butterfly: Narrative Gender Transition in Angela Carter's Writing
Through the Looking Glass of Madame Butterfly: Narrative Gender Transition in Angela Carter's Writing
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透过蝴蝶夫人的镜子：安吉拉·卡特写作中的叙事性别转变
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10.1093/cww/vpac020
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2023
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Natsumi Ikoma
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木村朗子;越門勝彦;西成彦;Natsumi Ikoma
本文将安吉拉·卡特的日本著作置于20世纪60年代和1970年代多重相互关联的话语背景中：一方面是欧洲知识分子的反帝国主义、后殖民主义和女权主义，另一方面是战后日本的“自我东方主义”、反西方民族主义和全球资本主义。作为日本的一名白人女性，卡特不仅像学者们之前所说的那样，双重客体化为女性和外国人，而且在父权/殖民主义话语中“主体化”，并意识到她在客体化、阉割和剥削当地人方面是同谋。卡特的日本和后日本著作反映了在殖民背景下新获得的性别意识，这体现在她有意识地使用男性代词和性别转变，有效地质疑了欧洲东方主义者的他者倾向和日本自我东方主义者对其的利用。
This article situates Angela Carter’s Japanese writings in the context of multiple interconnected discourses in the 1960s and 1970s: on the one hand, anti-imperialism, postcolonialism, and feminism among European intellectuals and, on the other hand, “self-orientalism,” anti-Western nationalism, and global capitalism in postwar Japan. As a white woman in Japan, Carter was not only, as previously argued by scholars, doubly objectified as woman and foreigner, but “subjectified” in a patriarchal/colonialist discourse and made aware of her complicity in objectifying, emasculating, and exploiting the native. Carter’s Japanese and post-Japan writings reflect a newly acquired awareness of gender in a colonial context, demonstrated by her conscious use of male pronouns and gender transitions, effectively problematizing the othering tendency of European orientalists and the Japanese self-orientalist exploitation of it.