Seeing Fotis: Slavery and Gender in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

IF 0.9 2区 历史学 0 CLASSICS CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1525/ca.2023.42.1.195
R. Stewart
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The portrayal of the enslaved woman Fotis in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses exposes the intersection of gender, sexuality, and slavery. Apuleius’ novel allows a window into interactions beyond the relationship of slaveholder and the enslaved person over whom s/he claimed dominium. Centering Fotis in Apuleius’ narrative shows how a discourse of slavery worked: an enslaved woman is made present as a body that may be sexualized and surrounded with fantasies of sex and violence. The sexual episodes of Lucius and Fotis reveal an aesthetic, facilitated by the system of slavery, of consuming bodies, watching bodies consumed by violence, and framing effacement and degradation as romance, an operation of power at the core of chattel slavery.
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看福蒂斯:阿普里乌斯《变形记》中的奴隶制与性别
Apuleius的《变形记》中对被奴役妇女Fotis的刻画暴露了性别、性和奴隶制的交叉。Apuleius的小说为了解奴隶主和被奴役者之间的关系之外的互动提供了一扇窗户。Apuleius的叙事以Fotis为中心,展示了奴隶制的话语是如何运作的:一个被奴役的女人被塑造成一个可能被性化的身体,并被性和暴力的幻想所包围。卢修斯和福蒂斯的性事件揭示了一种美学,在奴隶制制度的推动下,消费身体,观看被暴力消耗的身体,并将羞辱和堕落视为浪漫,这是动产奴隶制核心的权力运作。
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