The Insanity Plea in The Butcher’s Wife

IF 0.3 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2019-08-26 DOI:10.16995/olh.451
Lung-Lung Hu
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In 1983, Li Ang, a Taiwanese writer, adapted a case about the killing of a husband, committed by Zhan Zhou Shi in Shanghai in 1945, into the novel The Butcher’s Wife (1983). The case is also recorded in The Hearsay in Shanghai (1955) written by Chen Ding-Shan. The Butcher’s Wife depicts a woman who, due to her traumatized childhood and psychological condition caused by her husband and neighbours, kills her husband, a butcher, and dismembers the body the way he does pigs. Li Ang’s novel tries to offer a legal explanation to exonerate the butcher’s wife, Lin Shi, through a plea of insanity. In this article, I will compare the case of Zhan Zhou Shi both in the media and in The Hearsay in Shanghai with The Butcher’s Wife to illustrate Li Ang’s reinterpretation of the case and explain how Li Ang goes beyond the insanity pleas that strengthens a stereotypical image of insane female offenders.
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《屠夫的妻子》中的精神错乱辩护
1983年,台湾作家李昂将1945年詹周石在上海杀害丈夫的案件改编成小说《屠夫的妻子》(1983)。陈鼎山的《上海传闻》(1955)也有记载。《屠夫的妻子》描绘了一个女人,由于童年受到创伤,加上丈夫和邻居造成的心理问题,她杀死了屠夫丈夫,并像他杀猪一样肢解尸体。李昂的小说试图提供一个法律解释,以精神错乱为由为屠夫的妻子林诗开脱。在这篇文章中,我将比较媒体和《上海传闻》中的詹周石案与《屠夫的妻子》中的詹周石案,以说明李昂对此案的重新诠释,并解释李昂如何超越了精神错乱的辩护,这种辩护强化了精神错乱女性罪犯的刻板印象。
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期刊介绍: The Open Library of Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal open to submissions from researchers working in any humanities'' discipline in any language. The journal is funded by an international library consortium and has no charges to authors or readers. The Open Library of Humanities is digitally preserved in the CLOCKSS archive.
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