Deconstruction of the Ethics of Blood Kinship: An Analysis of a New Ethic of Family Kinship in Wise Children

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作者：

Pang Yanning ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Shandong Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Foreign Languages & Literature, Qingdao 566590, Peoples R China

来源：

FOREIGN LITERATURE STUDIES | 2015年 / 37卷 / 02期

关键词：

Angela Carter; Wise Children; ethics of blood kinship; family ethic of non-blood kinship;

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I [文学];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

Angela Carter's masterpiece, Wise Children, highly controversial as it is, represents a strikingly new perspective on ethics, namely, the family ethic of non-blood kinship. This refers to breaking the rule of establishing a family solely on the basis of legitimate blood kinship, and constructs the new type of family kinship, which is spontaneously erected on the basis of "friendship" (Aristotle) rather than on the kinship of marriage and blood. It is through the connection between the characters and plot configuration that Carter deconstructs the hegemony of blood kinship and rejects the blood-kinship family mode. It is argued that this newly-constructed ethical system proposes a new way for modern people suffering from the predicament of loneliness.

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