华裔女性沉默的抗争——基于二元对立解读《女勇士》
Chinese American Women’s Silent Struggle—An Interpretation to The Woman Warrior Based on Binary Opposition

本文从二元对立的角度，通过分析美国当代华裔女作家汤亭亭的代表作《女勇士》中的人物和情节，来挖掘其中的思想内涵。小说中人物形象之间的对立通过男性与女性、华裔与白人这两对冲突构建起来。在主题上则表现为两组——梦境与现实，传统与反叛。本文通过应用二元对立理论分析小说中的各组对立，意在揭示20世纪女性是如何在沉默中反抗父权社会和种族歧视，这对全球化背景下处理性别、种族和跨文化问题具有重要的现实意义。同时把传统经典的语言学理论运用于现代女性文学作品，不仅构建起两个学科的桥梁，也促进了文学研究理论的进一步发展。
From the perspective of binary opposition, this paper excavates the connotations of The Woman Warrior, the representative work of Maxine Hong Kingston who is a contemporary Chi-nese-American writer by analyzing the characters and plots. The opposition in the characters’ images of the novel is constructed through two conflicts between males and females, Chi-nese-Americans and whites. There are two groups of oppositions in the theme—dream and real-ity, tradition and rebellion. By applying the theory of binary opposition to analyze the oppositions in the novel, this paper intends to reveal how Chinese women in the 20th century fought against the patriarchal society and racial discrimination in silence, which has great practical significance for the treatment of gender, racial and cross-cultural issues in the context of globalization. Meanwhile, applying the traditional classical linguistics theory to the modern female literary works not only builds a bridge between the two disciplines, but also promotes the further development of the literary research theories.