(重读)阅读佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿和《失落的荣耀之钥》

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History Pub Date : 2015-06-19 DOI:10.5325/RECEPTION.7.1.0008
M. West
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这篇文章回顾了赫斯顿学术研究中最棘手的问题之一——赫斯顿和她的作品是否应该被视为女权主义者。我将这一争论置于当代学术界,并通过1947年一篇未发表且鲜为人知的文章《失落的荣耀之钥》来解决这个问题。在这篇混合了民间传说和性别角色分析的文章中,赫斯顿认为,大多数女性无法在工作场所与男性竞争,女权主义让女性失败了。为了解决这篇文章与赫斯顿生活方式之间的不协调,我建立了20世纪末和21世纪对赫斯顿作为女权主义者的持续看法的根源。我继续追溯赫斯顿用来构建性别关系批判的民间故事的渊源。然后,根据女权主义的三种定义,我认为,虽然表面上赫斯顿的文章在21世纪似乎明显是反女权主义的,但当在其原始语境和各种女权主义框架中阅读时,这篇文章确实包含了一些女权主义元素,这表明在1947年赫斯顿在某种程度上持有我们今天所说的女权主义理想,特别是考虑到二战后重新转变时代的意识形态背景。
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(Re)reading Zora Neale Hurston and “The Lost Keys of Glory”
This essay revisits one of the thorniest issues in Hurston scholarship—the question of whether Hurston and her writings should be considered feminist. I place the debate within contemporary scholarship and address the question via an unpublished and little-known 1947 essay titled “The Lost Keys of Glory.” In this essay—a blend of folklore and analysis of gender roles—Hurston argues that most women are unable to compete with men in the workplace and that feminism has failed women. To address the incongruity between the essay and the way in which Hurston lived her life, I establish the roots of persistent late twentieth-and twenty-first-century perceptions of Hurston as a feminist. I move on to trace the lineage of the folktale Hurston uses to frame this critique of gender relations. Then, drawing from three definitions of feminism, I argue that while on the surface Hurston’s essay seems strikingly anti-feminist in the twenty-first century, when read within its original context and within various feminist frameworks, the essay does contain a number of feminist elements, suggesting that to some degree in 1947 Hurston held what we would call today feminist ideals, particularly given the ideological context of the post-World War II re-conversion era.
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期刊介绍: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.
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