The Alienated Body in George Sanders’ “The Semplica Girl Diaries”

乔治·桑德斯的《关于桑蓓莉卡女郎的日记》选自其短篇小说集《十二月十日》(2013)。该选篇延续了其简洁、幽默且充满讽刺的写作风格，在消费文化的语境下描绘了异化的身体。尽管身体作为一个重要的研究对象早已受到关注，但其在该选篇中尚未得到充分探讨。因此，文章试图聚焦消费社会中身体的异化现象，探讨其本质及其社会文化根源，同时分析小说的写作意图与社会价值。通过揭示身体的异化，文章旨在为遭到剥削的边缘群体发声，并呼吁在消费社会中重振人文精神。George Saunders’ “The Semplica Girl Diaries”, part of his collection Tenth of December (2013), maintains his terse, humorous and ironic writing style, depicting the alienated body within the context of consumer culture. Body as a significant research object has yet to be thoroughly examined. The paper thus addresses this gap by focusing on the alienated body caused by the consumer society, exploring its nature and its social and cultural roots, as well as the writing intention and the social value of the story. By revealing the alienation of the body, the thesis aims at speaking for the marginalized people whose bodies have been exploited as an operational capital and appeals for the renaissance of humanistic spirit in the consumer society.