爱尔兰当代著名女诗人依婉.伯兰在她20世纪80年代出版的诗集《她的自视形象》中,通过“女性写作”(female writing)来书写女性自己的世界,为爱尔兰女性争取“女性话语”(female discourse)。千百年来爱尔兰女人以及她的身体只是被男性作家书写的对象,女人始终处于被动失语的状态:被审视,被书写。伯兰的“女性写作”打破了女性失语的传统状态,反抗了男性话语的霸权,为广大的爱尔兰女性赢得了真正的言说和存在权利。 Irving’s famous contemporary woman poet, Ewan Boland, wrote her own world through her “female self-proclaimed image” in her 1980s collection of poems for the Irish women, “Female discourse”. For thousands of years, Irish women and her body have been the object of writing by male writers. Women are always in passive aphasia: looked and written. Burland’s “Female Writing” broke the traditional state of female aphasia and resisted the hegemony of male discourse, winning the true speech and the right of existence for the majority of Irish women.