宠儿中空间内的主体性建构英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

分类号 分类号 密级 学校代码 !Q5垒2 学号2Q 12Q2Q墨Q鱼13 Subj ectivity C onstruction in Space in Beloved 《宠儿》中空间内的主体性建构 指导教师姓名、职称 直塑捡塾撞 学 科 专 业 墓亟适童塞堂 湖南师范大学学位评定委员会办公室 二0一五年五月 万方数据 Subj Subj ectivity C onstruction in Space in Beloved By Liang Xi Under the Supervision of Professor Xiao Minghan Submitted To Foreign Studies College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject of English Language and Literature Hunan Normal University Changsna，Hunan May，201 5 万方数据 AbstractWith Abstract With Lefebvre’S Spatial Triad as theoretical framework，this paper explores the representational meanings of different spaces and the relationship between space and the loss of subj ectivity in Beloved． Political issues，such as racial issues reflected in the novel，are spatial issues in essence．Slave owners，who are the dominating class，impose the ideology of slavery on black slaves through their conceived representations of space．Due to constraints from those representations of space，slavery is internalized by black slaves．By different spatial means， the subj ectivity of black slaves is gradually lost．However,it is possible for black slaves to construct their subjectivity through limited spaces of representation and spatial practices which run against the dominant representations of space． This paper consists of three chapters．Chapter One analyzes three significant racial representations of space：1 24，Sweet Home，and slave ships during the Middle Passage．These spaces constitute a storehouse of power in which the racial ideology is internalized． Chapter Two analyzes how black slaves are obj ectified by slave owners through spaces and that fractured black communal space perpetuates their loss of subje ztivity．Slave owners write on slaves’bodies 万方数据 through through whipping and mutilation．The mark thus left becomes a kind of signifier to black identity．Slave owners treat slaves’bodies as property to propagate offspring．Slave owners also restrict the freedom of sla