Abstract

This article attends to the ways in which Canadian Mennonite novelist Miriam Toews’ Women Talking crafts a feminist theological parable of women envoicing and incarnating pacifism in the context of a purportedly pacifist colony devastated by patriarchal violence. I argue that the novel, like the biblical parables, functions as a ‘mythos (a heuristic fiction) which has the mimetic power of “redescribing” [pained] human existence’ in reparative terms (Ricoeur). More particularly, as a feminist theological parable, the novel displays in literary form what Luce Irigaray philosophically conceives of as ‘becoming divine women’. I first explore definitions of biblical parables and divine becomings, prior to turning my attention to the Bolivian crisis, and then to Toews’ hopeful, revisionist narrative.

中文翻译：

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成为神的女人：米里亚姆·图斯的女人在谈论寓言1

摘要

本文探讨了加拿大门诺派小说家米里亚姆·图斯（Miriam Toews）的《女人说话》（Women Talking）如何在被父权制暴力摧毁的所谓和平主义者殖民地的背景下，创造出一个女性主义的神学寓言，即女性对和平主义者的信奉和化身。我认为这部小说就像圣经中的寓言一样，起着“神话（启发式小说）的作用”，具有模仿性的“重新描述”（痛苦的）人类生存的模仿力量”（Ricoeur）。更具体地说，作为女性主义的神学寓言，这部小说以文学形式展示了卢斯·伊里加里（Luce Irigaray）哲学上所谓的“成为神圣的女性”。'。在将注意力转移到玻利维亚危机之前，然后在对图斯的希望，修正主义叙事进行关注之前，我首先探讨了圣经寓言和神性成语的定义。