《盲刺客》中的食物与食欲书写

Food and Appetite Writing in The Blind Assassin

摘要: 文章以加拿大作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德获得布克奖的小说《盲刺客》为例，从小说中的食物书写与食欲书写切入，分析其中的话语解构与建构。食物与食欲在小说中不仅作为单一的物质与欲望代表，也是主体性消解和重建的试验场。在阿特伍德看来，饮食秩序所暗示的话语体系本身是一个吞噬生命主体的巨型消化系统，小说中的食物种类与主人公深度绑定，侧面映射出小说暗含的畸形话语体系。《盲刺客》中主人公对于食欲的压制和排斥体现出丧失主体性的边缘个体生命对既定话语秩序的反抗。玛格丽特通过大量的食物描写揭示边缘个体在性别、身份与话语体系中的被动处境，也通过边缘个体对于食欲的控制或追求展现其反抗畸形话语体系的尝试。

Abstract: This paper examines the construction of discourse in Canadian author and Literary critic Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Assassin through an analysis of its depictions of food and appetite. In the novel, food and appetite function not merely as representations of material substance and desire, but also as sites where the dissolution and reconstruction of subjectivity are enacted. From Atwood’s perspective, the discursive system implied by the alimentary order itself constitutes a vast digestive apparatus that consumes living subjects. The types of food in the novel are deeply intertwined with the protagonist, indirectly reflecting the distorted discursive order underlying the narrative. The protagonist’s suppression and rejection of appetite in The Blind Assassin serve as a form of resistance by marginalized individuals, who, in their loss of subjectivity, oppose the established discursive order. Through extensive depictions of food, Atwood reveals the passive situation of marginalized individuals within gender dynamics, bodily discourses, and power structures, while also illustrating their attempts to resist the distorted discursive order through the regulation or pursuit of appetite.