| 英文摘要 |
The present paper reads Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire in terms of the two planes of narrative—“story” and “discourse”—to highlight the problematics of “justice.” Through discourse analysis, the present paper proposes that the story of A Streetcar Named Desire be no more and no less than that of law. “Interrogation” and “confession” run through the narrative and set the tone for the play. In the play, Stanley tries to gain the share of his wife’s heritage in the name of Napoleonic code from his sister-in-law, Blanche, and continually interrogates her in their apartment-courtroom, where Stella (Blanche’s sister) and the neighbors participate in the trial as jurors. With no allies, Blanche’s discourse takes confessional defense to resist against unfair accusations based on Stanley’s distorted interpretations of information. However, as much as Blanche’s defense for her misconduct fails, her being of otherness, resulting in Stanley’s rape of her, turns out to work as an ineffable challenge to the symbolic order of the Same in the world of Stanley and Stella’s. While sexual justice and Law justice are not served in A Streetcar Named Desire, the reader is presented with the forever-deferred-singular justice. It is with this singularity of justice that the present paper makes every effort to engage in a dialogue with law/Law.
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