| Gail Jones（1955-）is a prominent contemporary Australian woman writer.To date,Gail Jones has published two collections of short stories and eight full-length novels,which earned her Western Australian Prime Minister’s Book Award,Miles Franklin Prize and Booker Prize.One of her postmodern works,Sorry（2007）,with its title taken as an allusion to the personal and national tragedy in Australia,reveals its profound historical and social significance by mainly depicting the miserable and voiceless situation of three females under male society in Australia and their desperate efforts to break the aphasia dilemma.Based on Michel Foucault’s power discourse theory,this thesis analyzes the three female aphasia images in Sorry from the perspectives of patriarchal discourse,family discourse and racial discourse respectively.By illustrating the representations,causes and outlets of their aphasia,this thesis is aimed to present tortuous situation of females from each social status trapped in a state of silence and their amazing vitality to fight against the situation so as to achieve their independent personality.Thus,this thesis concludes that silence does not mean submission,but rather their last stubbornness and dying struggle in the narrow living space and difficult life situation,and their realization of self-rebirth in the silent world.Although these voiceless females can not release a voice of their own,as the center of marginal discourse,they always speak of the injustice of fate with their own silence and their feelings of resistance are still surging. |
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