使女的故事

使女的故事
原名	The Handmaid's Tale
作者	玛格丽特·阿特伍德
类型	反乌托邦小说, 科学幻想, 推想小说
语言	英语
发行信息
出版机构	麦克莱兰与斯图尔特（英语：McClelland & Stewart）
出版时间	1985年
出版地点	加拿大
媒介	打印（精装）
页数	324
所获奖项	亚瑟·克拉克奖、全国公共广播电台百佳科幻奇幻小说[]、Governor General's Award for English-language fiction[]、洛杉矶时报书卷奖[]、Audie Award[]
续作	《证词》
规范控制
ISBN	0-7710-0813-9
OCLC	[https://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-standnum-txt=140786839&startRec=0 140786839]

《使女的故事》（英语：The Handmaid's Tale）是一本由加拿大女性作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德^[2]^[3] 于1985年所著的反乌托邦小说^[1]。小说的标题呼应了乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》（The Canterbury Tales）的组成方式，这是个故事集，由某某的故事组成，如“商人的故事”、“帕森的故事”等。^[4] 小说续作《证词》于2019年出版。

故事简述[编辑]

《使女的故事》由两部分组成，分别是夜晚和其他各种活动。这部小说可以解释为一个双重叙事，侍女奥芙佛瑞德（Offred）的故事，以及侍女们的故事。夜晚部分只是关于侍女奥芙佛瑞德；其他部分，如购物、候车室，家庭等，是描述每个侍女可能的生活的故事。

描述在不久的未来，美国因为战乱及其他灾祸而瓦解，极权主义基督教重建主义取而代之。在基利国（英语：Republic of Gilead），多数女性地位低落沦为杂役，少数仍具备生育能力的则被选为“侍女”（Handmaid）成为权贵（The Commander）的生产工具。这部小说探讨了女性在征服中的主题以及获得个人主义和独立的各种手段。

荣誉[编辑]

《使女的故事》赢得1985年加拿大总督奖、1987年亚瑟·克拉克奖，也被提名1986年星云奖，1986年布克奖以及1987年普罗米修斯奖。它已被改编为电影，广播，歌剧和舞台剧。

改编作品[编辑]

《使女的故事（英语：The Handmaid's Tale (film)）》（1990年电影）
《使女的故事（英语：The Handmaid's Tale (opera)）》（2000年歌剧）
《使女的故事》（2017年电视剧）

延伸阅读[编辑]

Adami, Valentina. Bioethics Through Literature: Margaret Atwood's Cautionary Tales. Trier: WVT. 2011.
Atwood, Margaret. Bloom, Harold , 编. The Handmaid's Tale. Philadelphia: Chelsea House. 2001.
Cooper, Pamela. 'A Body Story with a Vengeance': Anatomy and Struggle in The Bell Jar and The Handmaid's Tale. Women's Studies. 1997, 26 (1): 89–123. doi:10.1080/00497878.1997.9979152.
Dopp, Jamie. Subject-Position as Victim-Position in The Handmaid's Tale. Studies in Canadian Literature. 1994, 19 (1): 43–57.
Gardner, Laurel J. Pornography as a Matter of Power in The Handmaid's Tale. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 1994, 24 (5): 5–7.
Garretts-Petts, WF. Reading, Writing and the Postmodern Condition: Interpreting Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Open Letter. Seventh. 1988, I.
Geddes, Dan. Negative Utopia as Polemic: The Handmaid's Tale. The Satirist. January 2001 [2021-02-13]. （原始内容存档于2021-02-14）.
Hammer, Stephanie Barbé. The World as It Will Be? Female Satire and the Technology of Power in The Handmaid's Tale. Modern Language Studies. 1990, XX (2): 39–49. JSTOR 3194826. doi:10.2307/3194826.
Malak, Amin. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Dystopian Tradition. Canadian Literature. 1987, 112: 9–16.
McCarthy, Mary. No Headline: The Handmaid's Tale (Boston: Houghton Mifflin). The New York Times (review). 9 February 1986 [11 April 2016]. （原始内容存档于2008-08-02）.
Mohr, Dunja M., Worlds Apart: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias, Jefferson, NC: McFarland 2005, 2005 Long chapter on The Handmaid's Tale as utopia and dystopia.
Myrsiades, Linda. Law, Medicine, and the Sex Slave in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Myrsiades, Kostas; Myrsiades, Linda (编). Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and Culture. New York: Peter Lang. 1999: 219–45.
Stanners, Barbara; Stanners, Michael; Atwood, Margaret. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Top Notes Literature Guides. Seven Hills, NSW, Australia: Five Senses Education. 2004.
Tennant, Colette. Religion in The Handmaid's Tale: A Brief Guide. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. 2019. ISBN 9781506456317.

参考资料[编辑]

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 About Speculative Fiction, The Handmaid's Tale Study Guide, Gradesaver, 22 May 2009 [2016-07-09], （原始内容存档于2010-04-19） .
^ Atwood, Margaret, Aliens have taken the place of angels, The Guardian (UK), 17 June 2005 [2016-07-09], （原始内容存档于2021-03-25）, If you're writing about the future and you aren't doing forecast journalism, you'll probably be writing something people will call either science fiction or speculative fiction. I like to make a distinction between science fiction proper and speculative fiction. For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do, such as going through a wormhole in space to another universe; and speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand, such as DNA identification and credit cards, and that takes place on Planet Earth. But the terms are fluid. Some use speculative fiction as an umbrella covering science fiction and all its hyphenated forms–science fiction fantasy, and so forth–and others choose the reverse. … I have written two works of science fiction or, if you prefer, speculative fiction: The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. Here are some of the things these kinds of narratives can do that socially realistic novels cannot do.
^ Langford 2003.
^ Atwood, Margaret. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump. The New York Times. 2017-03-10 [2021-10-25]. ISSN 0362-4331. （原始内容存档于2017-03-15）（美国英语）.

外部链接[编辑]

（英文）Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. World Book Club. 英国广播公司国际频道. April 2003 [2017-09-20]. （原始内容 (音频文件格式)存档于2017-06-03）. .
（英文）The Handmaid's Tale （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） 皇家温尼伯芭蕾舞团（英语：Royal Winnipeg Ballet）芭蕾舞

奖项
前任： The Engineer of Human Souls	Governor General's Award for English language fiction recipient 1985	继任：爱的进程
前任： -	亚瑟·克拉克奖 1987	继任： The Sea and Summer

[GradesaverSpecFic-1] 1.0 ^1.1 About Speculative Fiction, The Handmaid's Tale Study Guide, Gradesaver, 22 May 2009 [2016-07-09], （原始内容存档于2010-04-19） .

[Angels-2] Atwood, Margaret, Aliens have taken the place of angels, The Guardian (UK), 17 June 2005 [2016-07-09], （原始内容存档于2021-03-25）, If you're writing about the future and you aren't doing forecast journalism, you'll probably be writing something people will call either science fiction or speculative fiction. I like to make a distinction between science fiction proper and speculative fiction. For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do, such as going through a wormhole in space to another universe; and speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand, such as DNA identification and credit cards, and that takes place on Planet Earth. But the terms are fluid. Some use speculative fiction as an umbrella covering science fiction and all its hyphenated forms–science fiction fantasy, and so forth–and others choose the reverse. … I have written two works of science fiction or, if you prefer, speculative fiction: The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. Here are some of the things these kinds of narratives can do that socially realistic novels cannot do.

[Langford-3] Langford 2003.

[4] Atwood, Margaret. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump. The New York Times. 2017-03-10 [2021-10-25]. ISSN 0362-4331. （原始内容存档于2017-03-15）（美国英语）.

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