Citation

Zhang H, Han H. Foreign Literature Studies 2016; 38(5): 69-77.

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(Copyright © 2016)

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Abstract

Martin Amis's Money: A Suicide Note and London Fields have been controversial for the erotic depiction of sex and women. Money tells the story of the male protagonist's sex trade with quite a few women driven by lust, and has been criticized for manifesting and highlighting the old idea of masculinity. London Fields revolves around the heroine's seduction of the three male characters during the course of her seeking a male murderer, and has been sharply deprecated as submitting to the oppressive gender culture. However, the erotic narrative in both works is highly paradoxical and ironic. In their deep structures respectively, the former novel is subverting the dominant ideology of masculinity whereas the latter is deconstructing the stereotyped concept of femininity dictated by patriarchy. Its ironic contemplation is conducive to the critiques of gender ideology in a postmodern consumerist society. © Copyright by Foreign Literature Studies. All right reserved.

Language: zh

Keywords

Martin Amis; Money: A Suicide Note; Erotic narrative; Gender relations; London Fields