ABSTRACT:The Ballad of Sad Café is one of the best novels of Carson McCullers. In a small town in South America, the heroine Miss Amelia stages a rather strange story of loving triangle with bad guy Macy and hunchback Lymon. The whole story, which has compact content and thrilling plot, takes the ups and downs of the café as the clue. The café is an important sign of the industrial age. With the development of the café, the natural scenery, mode of production and the quality of people’s lives in the novel have changed vastly. What’s worse is that patriarchal duality produced by industrial society distorts people’s minds and particularly has negative effects on females. From the perspective of eco-feminism, Carson McCullers reveals the close interconnection between females and nature, and human beings’ domination over nature is amazingly similar to men’s domination over women. So protection of nature should combine with the solicitude for women. This paper attempts to analyze Carson McCullers’s eco-feminist consciousness in the novel and reveals the writer’s intention is to condemn the patriarchal duality that oppresses both of nature and women in the industrial society and call on the harmonious relationship among men, women and nature.
Keywords: Nature; Eco-feminism; Industrial society; Patriarchal duality
中文摘要:《伤心咖啡馆之歌》是卡森·麦卡勒斯最好的小说之一，讲述了一个在美国南部的小镇上，主人公艾米丽小姐与恶棍马西、罗锅李蒙上演的一场曲折离奇的三角恋故事。整个故事以咖啡馆的兴衰为线索，内容紧凑、情节扣人心弦。咖啡馆正是工业时代来临的标志，随着咖啡馆的兴衰，小说中的自然景物、生产模式、人们的生活质量发生了巨大的变化，更为重要的是父权制二元性的工业社会扭曲了人们的心智，尤其对女性造成了消极的影响。在这部小说中，卡森·麦卡勒斯从生态女性主义视角揭示了女性与大自然之间存在着更为亲近的内在联系，人类对自然的控制与社会对女性的控制有着惊人的相似之处，提倡保护自然应该与关注女性结合起来。本文将深入分析小说中的生态女性主义意识，并揭示出小说的创作旨在抨击父权制二元性的工业社会对自然和女性的迫害，并以这种方式呼吁一种人与人、人与社会、人与自然之间和谐的关系。
关键词：自然；生态女性主义；工业社会；父权制二元性
