As Sylvia Plath's only published novel,The Bell Jar is not only a literary representation of the author's personal experiences in her early years,of persons and the society in real life,but also integrates into its texture some of the real-life events in 1950s and 1960s American society.Navigating through the tension between and intertwining of the individual and the society,history and fiction,truth and imagination,the novel successfully captures the historical reality of American society in the early years of the Cold War.Through the vantage point of body politics and from the first-person perspective,the novel relates the protagonist Esther Greenwood's long-term depression and desperate resistance,refracturing the living reality of"the other"represented by women under the sway of Cold War politics pervading American society in the era.Under the Cold War mentality and the White Terror,the subject of bio-politics practices all-round policies of containment,reinforcing the discipline of women's bodies on such micro levels of daily life as culture,commercial consumption and medical care.The novel hence brings out the ideology of containment and the consciousness of body politics permeating American society in the 1950s,and its distinctive theme of body politics is inextricably bound up with Cold War discourse.
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西尔维娅·普拉斯/《钟形罩》/历史现实/身体政治/冷战思维
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Sylvia Plath/The Bell Jar/historical reality/body politics/Cold War mentality
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