The present article departs from the concept of "mimicry" or "masquerade", theorised by such feminist critics as Joan Riviere (1929), Luce Irigaray (1985), or Mary Ann Doane (1991). This implies that women deliberately assume the feminine style and posture assigned to them within patriarchal discourse with a subversive rather than merely imitative intention by means of what Gerard Genette calls "saturation". In particular, this study focuses on Katherine Mansfield's satire of gender stereotypes in Germany. Through this mimicry, Mansfield aims to prove that such stereotypes go beyond national boundaries and affect the people of different countries similarly-in this case Germany and England. The selected texts are two short stories included within her early collection In a German Pension (1911): "The Modem Soul" and "Germans at Meat".
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机译：本文偏离了“模仿”或“假面舞会”的概念，该概念由琼·里维耶尔（Joan Riviere，1929年），卢斯·伊里加里（Luce Irigaray，1985年）或玛丽·安·多恩（Mary Ann Doane，1991年）等女权主义批评家提出。这暗示着女性通过盖拉德·吉内特（Gerard Genette）所谓的“饱和”，故意在父权制话语中采取赋予女性的风格和姿态，具有颠覆而不是模仿的意图。尤其是，这项研究的重点是凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德（Katherine Mansfield）对德国性别陈规定型观念的讽刺。通过这种模仿，曼斯菲尔德旨在证明这种定型观念超越了国界，并同样影响了不同国家的人民，在这种情况下，就是德国和英国。选定的文字是她的早期收藏中的两个短篇小说：《德国养老金》（1911年）：《现代灵魂》和《德国肉类》。
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