Abstract
From the perspective of Lesbian Bildungsroman, and taking the novel --- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruits by Jeanette Winterson as the research target, this paper endeavors to analyze the difficulties the protagonist of this novel, Jeanette has been through, from strongly influenced by her parents, controlled by the church, to then finding out about her sexual tendency and finally decide to insist on living her own life. This essay shows that how important those figures are in her growing process. From the detailed analysis, this essay discovers the author’s will to fight against male chauvinism and protect lesbian’s rights through the description of Jeanette’s grow up process.
Keywords lesbian bildungsroman religion restriction Queer theory family control
本文从女同性恋小说的角度,以珍妮特.温特森的小说---《橘子不是唯一的水果》为探讨对象,略论小说主人公在成长中经历的各种困难,由整日被父母作用,被宗教教会的控制,英语毕业论文,到对自己感情取向的发现,以及最终决定坚持自己想法过自己想过的人生的过程,表现在各个小说主要人物的性格以及他们的行为对主人公成长的作用,也探究出作者通过主人公的成长经历所要表达的对男权主义的反抗和对女权主义思想及女同性恋权利的伸张。
关键词 女同性恋的成长小说 宗教束缚 酷儿理论 家庭控制
The author, Jeanette Winterson, is an outstanding and a disputable novelist in the 20th century. Jeanette Winterson was adopted by Pentecostal parents. There were only six books in the house, including the Bible and Cruden’s Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments. Reading was not much approved unless it was the Bible. Her parents intended to make her become a missionary. Jeanette had left home at 16 after falling in love with another girl. While she took A levels she at university, she supported herself by evening and weekend work. In a year off to earn money, she worked as a domestic in a lunatic asylum. ,英语论文 |