南非种族隔离制度于1994年土崩瓦解，给南非文学带来了自由，对南非著名作家安德烈·布林克的文学创作也产生了深远的影响。他开始探索与审视那些被掩埋和被禁言的历史，叩问男性主导叙事下边缘化的女性的故事，试图用笔的力量，通过文学中的经典原型意象，重塑女性在南非历史中的存在，让她们从受支配地位变为故事的主体和叙事主体。本文试图以原型意象为经，以小说中的女性人物为纬，借助希腊悲剧美狄亚杀子、法国英雄圣女贞德和《天方夜谭》里的故事高手舍赫拉查德三大原型意象，隐喻布林克后期的四部长篇小说《沙漠随想》《魔鬼山谷》《沉默的反面》《菲莉达》中不同肤色、不同文化、不同历史背景的女性人物，揭露在南非种族主义政治和性别政治驳杂的景深之下，女性悲惨的命运、遭受压迫后的奋起反抗和对主导命运的无限渴求，镜映出女性在南非历史和现实语境中的文化历史内涵和主导叙事欲望。
The apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994，which brought freedom to the literature of this country and had a great impact on the writing of the eminent writer，André Brink. He set out to explore and examine the buried and silenced history，revealing the stories of South African women who were marginalized by the male-dominated master narrative of history and strove to use the power of pen to reconstruct the existence of women in the history of South Africa through classic archetypal images in literature，thus moving them from the subordinate position to the subject of stories and narration. This paper examines the female characters in Brink’s later works：Imaginings of Sand，Devil’s Valley，The Other Side of Silence，Philida in terms of the archetypal images of Medea，Joan of Arc and Scheherazade from Arabian Nights. Through the study of female characters of different colors，cultures and historical backgrounds under the oppression of racial and gender politics，this paper also attempts to reveal women’s tragic fate，courageous fight in oppression and infinite desire to dominate their fate，mirroring women’s cultural and historical connotation and desire of dominant narration in the historical and realistic context of South Africa.
