西方男性研究理论认为,男性身份和男性身体所涉及的权力话语关系建构于社会意识形态之上,随历史、文化和社会条件变化,具有被颠覆和重构的社会属性。美国知名剧作家爱德华·阿尔比(Edward Albee)在其几部代表作品中塑造了一系列缺失“男子气质”的男性人物。他们频频遭受来自于异性的语言暴力,在权利话语争夺的博弈中屡遭失败,逐渐被社会所边缘化或沦为女性的附属。男性人物的集体失语不仅颠覆了美国历史上长期以来形成的传统男性气质,更颠覆了父权制占主导地位的社会主流意识形态,体现了阿尔比荒诞戏剧的批判现实主义特色。 Western male research theory holds that the relationship between the male identity and the power discourse involving the male body is based on the social ideology and is subverted and reconstructed with historical, cultural and social conditions. Edward Albee, a famous American playwright, has shaped a series of male characters lacking in “masculinity” in several of his representative works. They frequently suffer from verbal violence of the opposite sex. They often fail in the game of competing rights discourse and are gradually marginalized by society or reduced to women. The collective aphasia of male characters not only subverts the traditional masculinity formed in the history of the United States, but also subverts the mainstream social ideology which dominates the patriarchal system and embodies the critical realism features of Albi’s absurd drama.