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The Multiple Spatial Narratives in Jackie Kay's Trumpet
摘要
Henri Lefebvre is the founder of the theory of space production who initiated the ＂spatial turn＂ of the social sciences in the 1990s. Spatial criticism theory also provides a new analytical perspective for literature, triggering the quick rise of spatial literary studies. In current feminism and gender research, there are more and more explorations on the issues of body, gender, and subjectivity in spatial geography. This article focuses on the first novel Trumpet by the ＂Scottish Makar＂ Jackie Kay. Taking the space of the characters' activities in the novel as the main entry point, this article adopts Lefebvre's theory of the production of space and close reading as the main research method to analyze the different identity constructions of the main characters under the concepts of body space politics, race space politics and gender space politics. Studying this novel from the perspective of spatial politics not only enriches the research perspective, but also reveals the important aspects of race, class, gender, etc. involved in the novel through the tool of ＂space＂.