她们仍在故事途中——布林克长篇小说中女性原型意象研究

Abstract:The apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994，which brought freedom to the literature of this country and had a great impact on the writing of the eminent writer，André Brink. He set out to explore and examine the buried and silenced history，revealing the stories of South African women who were marginalized by the male-dominated master narrative of history and strove to use the power of pen to reconstruct the existence of women in the history of South Africa through classic archetypal images in literature，thus moving them from the subordinate position to the subject of stories and narration. This paper examines the female characters in Brink’s later works：Imaginings of Sand，Devil’s Valley，The Other Side of Silence，Philida in terms of the archetypal images of Medea，Joan of Arc and Scheherazade from Arabian Nights. Through the study of female characters of different colors，cultures and historical backgrounds under the oppression of racial and gender politics，this paper also attempts to reveal women’s tragic fate，courageous fight in oppression and infinite desire to dominate their fate，mirroring women’s cultural and historical connotation and desire of dominant narration in the historical and realistic context of South Africa.

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