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标题：Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing as a Critique of the Enlightenment Reason
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作者：Hossein Pirnajmuddin ; Omid Amani
期刊名称：Studies in Literature and Language
印刷版ISSN：1923-1555
电子版ISSN：1923-1563
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：6-10
DOI：10.3968/j.sll.1923156320110302.310
语种：English
出版社：Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
摘要：Surfacing, a novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1972, portrays the domination of western civilization as a masculinist ideology over nature and woman in parallel. The novel is about the degeneration of the core ideas of the Enlightenment – rationalism and progress – into brute domination, colonization and the rift between nature and culture. This study attempts to demonstrate the centrality of this critique to the novel. Atwood scathingly criticizes the rampant consumerism and capitalism of the modern age embodied in the threat posed by American culture, or American mentality, to Canada and nature which runs parallel to the masculine rationality which wills to ‘submerge’ (as the central metaphor of ‘surfacing’ has it) the feminine and the natural. The paper also discusses a number of other related dualisms represented in the novel.Key words: Margaret Atwood; Surfacing; The Enlightenment; reason; ecofeminism; nature; power
关键词：Margaret Atwood; Surfacing; The Enlightenment; reason; ecofeminism; nature; power