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《标准的讣告风格》(Standard Obituary Style)选自加拿大妇女出版社于1988年出版的《想象的妇女:短篇小说集》一书,是一篇具有后现代风格、反映女权思想的作品。故事的讲述者(似乎是个女人)以复杂的感情追悼刚去世的母亲,一位女权主义斗士。这位母亲反对男权中心的社会习俗,不断地为穷苦人、少数民族、特别是为妇女和儿童争取生存的权利,因而失去了自己的丈夫和家庭,并遭到议论,被传媒大肆渲染为一个新闻人物。叙述者对母亲怀着尊敬和深爱,但也流露出对她行为的不理解以及由于缺少母爱而造成的心灵创伤。全文采用了后现代笔法,在形式上标新立异以达到对传统叙事逻辑的解构。作者还把传媒的时空与真实生活的时空有意混同和穿插,以造成对母亲一生的真实情况与报纸对她经历的肤浅、零乱,甚至歪曲报道的反差,从而表达出叙述者貌似追随传媒,实质上谴责了给予母亲不公平待遇的男权社会。
Standard Obituary Style, a book from Imagine Women: A Collection of Short Stories published by the Canadian Woman Press in 1988, is a post-modern work that reflects feminist thinking. The storyteller (who appears to be a woman) grieves in a complicated way about the just-died mother, a feminist fighter. The mother opposed social practices at patriarchal centers and continued to fight for her right to survival for the poor, ethnic minorities, especially women and children, thus losing her husband and family and being discussed and hyped by the media as A news person The narrator has respect and love for her mother, but also reveals a lack of understanding of her behavior and the trauma caused by lack of maternal love. The full text adopts the postmodern writing style, unconventional in form to achieve the deconstruction of the traditional narrative logic. The author also deliberately confused and interspersed the media’s space-time with the real-life space-time in order to create a contrast between the real situation of his mother’s life and the superficial, messy and even distorted reports her experiences with her, thus expressing the narrator’s seemingly following the media, Condemned the patriarchal society that gave the mother unfair treatment.