Abstract This paper offers a spatial reading of Joyce Carol Oates’s We Were the Mulvaneys (1996). It argues that restructured domestic spaces depicted in the novel underscore the possibility of alternate homesteads that celebrate female choice and autonomy. Since We Were the Mulvaneys presents various models of domesticity coupled with a variety of domestic spaces that range from stifling to empowering, this paper engages specifically with architectural and symbolic connotations of suburban American homes depicted in the novel. In doing so, it argues that We Were the Mulvaneys critiques hegemonic social forces that create oppressive homes fettering womanhood, and how while seeking freedom and agency women can convert them to felicitous spaces. Using the concept of heterotopia, this paper asserts that the novel presents in-between zones wherein the patriarchal home is challenged and countered to produce hybrid homesteads that uncritically accommodate multifarious female identities.

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异位住宅：乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨 (Joyce Carol Oates) 的《我们是马尔瓦尼一家》中重组的家庭空间

摘要 本文提供了乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨 (Joyce Carol Oates) 的《我们是马尔瓦尼一家》(1996) 的空间解读。它认为，小说中描绘的重组家庭空间强调了庆祝女性选择和自主的替代家园的可能性。由于 We Were the Mulvaneys 展示了各种家庭生活模型以及从令人窒息到赋权的各种家庭空间，因此本文专门探讨了小说中描绘的美国郊区住宅的建筑和象征意义。在这样做的过程中，它认为我们是穆尔瓦尼一家批判了创造束缚女性的压迫家庭的霸权社会力量，以及女性如何在寻求自由和能动性的同时将她们转变为幸福的空间。使用异位的概念，