对杂糅文化身份的追寻
|
摘要
本文以新一代华裔女作家任碧莲的代表作《爱妾》中的杂糅文化身份追求为切入点,运用后殖民主义理论解读拥有着不同文化身份的王家成员。在经历了被他者化和杂糅这一过程后,王家成员成功地追寻到了一种杂糅文化身份。任碧莲成功地将王家刻画成为一个可以给家庭成员提供身份糅合机会的“第三空间”,同时也表达了自己的愿望,即希望美国也可以成为这样的第三空间。在当今美国,不仅仅是有色人群被主流社会认为是“他者”,同样,在有色人群的眼中WASP主流人群也被“他者”化,他们需要在第三空间中糅合生成自己新的的文化身份。
Based on the post-colonial theory,this thesis intends to explore the process of pursuing hybridized cultural identity in The Love Wife,the representative work of new generation Chinese-American female writer,Gish Jen.Representing different cultural identities,the family members of Wong's family undergo the process of being "othered" at the beginning but finally succeed in pursuing the hybridized cultural identity.Gish Jen successfully depicts the Wong's family as the "third space" that provides the chance for the family members to negotiate their cultural identities.She also expresses the wish that America will become the "third space" that can provide a place for people from different cultural backgrounds.Nowadays,it is not only the colored people who are considered as the "other" in America;the WASP are also the "other" in the eyes of the colored people.Both of them have to hybridize their cultural identities in the "third space"—a space for the opposite sides to pursue a hybridized new identity.
Based on the post-colonial theory,this thesis intends to explore the process of pursuing hybridized cultural identity in The Love Wife,the representative work of new generation Chinese-American female writer,Gish Jen.Representing different cultural identities,the family members of Wong's family undergo the process of being "othered" at the beginning but finally succeed in pursuing the hybridized cultural identity.Gish Jen successfully depicts the Wong's family as the "third space" that provides the chance for the family members to negotiate their cultural identities.She also expresses the wish that America will become the "third space" that can provide a place for people from different cultural backgrounds.Nowadays,it is not only the colored people who are considered as the "other" in America;the WASP are also the "other" in the eyes of the colored people.Both of them have to hybridize their cultural identities in the "third space"—a space for the opposite sides to pursue a hybridized new identity.
引文
Ashcroft,Bill;Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin,ed.The Post-colonial Studies Reader,London and New York:Routledge,1995.
Bhabha,Homi K.The Location of Culture.New York:Rutledge,1994.
Boehmer,Elleke.Colonial and Postcolonial Literature:Migrant Metaphors.New York:Alfred A.Knopf,1988.
Chin,Frank et al,eds.Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers.Garden City,NY:Anchor Books,Anchor Press/Doubleday,1975.
Fanon,Franntz.The Wrethed of the Earth.New York:Grove Press,1968.
Fuss,D.Essentially Speaking:Feminism,Nature & Difference.New York:Routledge,1991.
Ghymn,Esther Mikyung.Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers.New York,1995.
Hong,Maria.Growing Up Asian American,New York:William Morrow Company,1993.
Hoogvelt,A.Globalization and the Postcolonial World:The New Political Economy of Development.Baltimore:The John Hopkins University Press.1997.
Huang,Shuchen Suan."Gish Jen." Asian American Short Story Writers:An A-to Z Guide.Ed.Huang Guiyou.Westport,Ct:Greenwood Press,2003.
Huntley,E.D.Amy Tan:A Critical Companion.London:Greenwood Press,1998.
Jen,Gish.The Love Wife.New York:Alfred A.Knopf,2004.
Jen,Gish.Mona in the Promised Land,New York:Vintage Books,1997.
Kim,Elaine.Asian American Literature:An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context.Philadelphia:Temple University Press,1982.
Kort,Carol.A To Z of American Women Writers(Revised Edition).United States:Facts on File,2007.
Lee,Rachel."Gish Jen(an interview)." Words Matter:Conversation with Asian American Writers.Ed.King-Kok Cheung.Honolulu:University of Hawai'I Press,2000.
Ling,Amy.Between Worlds:Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry.New York:Pergamon Press,1990.
Marrouchi,Mustapha."Counternarratives,recoveries,refusals." Ed.Paul A.Bove.Edward Said and the Work of the Critic:Speaking Truth to Power.Durham and London:Duke University Press,2000.
Moore-Gilbert,Bart.Post-colonial Theory:Contexts,Practices,Politics.London,New York:Verso,1997.
Nicholson,Linda J.ed,Gendered Trouble:Judith Butler Feminism and The Subversion of Identity.London:Routledge,Chapman & Hall,Inc,1990.
Rutherford,Jonathan ed."The Third Space:Interview with Homi Bhabha." Identity:Community,Culture,Difference.London:Lawrence & Wishart,1990
Said,Edward W.Orientalism.London:Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd,1978.
Said,Edward W.Culture and Imperialism.London:Vintage,1999.
Selden,Ramen,etc.A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.Beijing:Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,2004.
Simpson,J.C."Fresh Voice above the Noisy Din." Time,1991(6),vol.137 Issue 22
Spivak,Gayatri Chakravory."Race before racism:the disappearance of the American." Ed.Paul A.Bove.Edward Said and the Work of the Critic:Speaking Truth to Power.Durham and London:Duck University Press,2000.
Wang,Fei."Narrative Subversion and the Construction of Chinese American Identity in Third Space:A Postcolonial Reading of Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey".Fujian Normal University,2007.
Wong,Sau-ling Cynthia.Reading Asian American Literature:From Necessity to Extravagance.Princeton,New Jersey:Princeton University Press,1993.
Xia,Xi."Redifining American Family Beyond Horizons:A Cultural Interpretation of Gish Jen's Works".Nanjing Normal University,2005.
刘海平,王守仁.新编美国文学史.第四卷.上海:上海外语教育出版社,2002.
蒲若茜.族裔经验与文化想象.北京:中国社会科学出版社,2006.
石平萍.悠游于东西文化的世界人—从《爱妾》看任璧莲的跨文化视角.世界文化,2008(6).
徐云耕译.多元文化主义语境下的当代华裔美国文学—美国华裔作家任碧莲访谈录.国外文学,1997(4).
朱刚.二十世纪西方文艺批评理论.上海:上海外语教育出版社,2001.
朱刚.二十世纪西方文论.北京:北京大学出版社,2006.
Net 1.Biography and Criticism on Gish Jen < http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/jen_gish.html>
Net 2.Media Reviews < http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1469>
Net 3:VanGaalen,Izaak."Under Easter Eyes." 2004< http://www.amazon.com/Occidentalism-West-Eyes-Its-Enemies/dp/1594200084>
Bhabha,Homi K.The Location of Culture.New York:Rutledge,1994.
Boehmer,Elleke.Colonial and Postcolonial Literature:Migrant Metaphors.New York:Alfred A.Knopf,1988.
Chin,Frank et al,eds.Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers.Garden City,NY:Anchor Books,Anchor Press/Doubleday,1975.
Fanon,Franntz.The Wrethed of the Earth.New York:Grove Press,1968.
Fuss,D.Essentially Speaking:Feminism,Nature & Difference.New York:Routledge,1991.
Ghymn,Esther Mikyung.Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers.New York,1995.
Hong,Maria.Growing Up Asian American,New York:William Morrow Company,1993.
Hoogvelt,A.Globalization and the Postcolonial World:The New Political Economy of Development.Baltimore:The John Hopkins University Press.1997.
Huang,Shuchen Suan."Gish Jen." Asian American Short Story Writers:An A-to Z Guide.Ed.Huang Guiyou.Westport,Ct:Greenwood Press,2003.
Huntley,E.D.Amy Tan:A Critical Companion.London:Greenwood Press,1998.
Jen,Gish.The Love Wife.New York:Alfred A.Knopf,2004.
Jen,Gish.Mona in the Promised Land,New York:Vintage Books,1997.
Kim,Elaine.Asian American Literature:An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context.Philadelphia:Temple University Press,1982.
Kort,Carol.A To Z of American Women Writers(Revised Edition).United States:Facts on File,2007.
Lee,Rachel."Gish Jen(an interview)." Words Matter:Conversation with Asian American Writers.Ed.King-Kok Cheung.Honolulu:University of Hawai'I Press,2000.
Ling,Amy.Between Worlds:Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry.New York:Pergamon Press,1990.
Marrouchi,Mustapha."Counternarratives,recoveries,refusals." Ed.Paul A.Bove.Edward Said and the Work of the Critic:Speaking Truth to Power.Durham and London:Duke University Press,2000.
Moore-Gilbert,Bart.Post-colonial Theory:Contexts,Practices,Politics.London,New York:Verso,1997.
Nicholson,Linda J.ed,Gendered Trouble:Judith Butler Feminism and The Subversion of Identity.London:Routledge,Chapman & Hall,Inc,1990.
Rutherford,Jonathan ed."The Third Space:Interview with Homi Bhabha." Identity:Community,Culture,Difference.London:Lawrence & Wishart,1990
Said,Edward W.Orientalism.London:Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd,1978.
Said,Edward W.Culture and Imperialism.London:Vintage,1999.
Selden,Ramen,etc.A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.Beijing:Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,2004.
Simpson,J.C."Fresh Voice above the Noisy Din." Time,1991(6),vol.137 Issue 22
Spivak,Gayatri Chakravory."Race before racism:the disappearance of the American." Ed.Paul A.Bove.Edward Said and the Work of the Critic:Speaking Truth to Power.Durham and London:Duck University Press,2000.
Wang,Fei."Narrative Subversion and the Construction of Chinese American Identity in Third Space:A Postcolonial Reading of Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey".Fujian Normal University,2007.
Wong,Sau-ling Cynthia.Reading Asian American Literature:From Necessity to Extravagance.Princeton,New Jersey:Princeton University Press,1993.
Xia,Xi."Redifining American Family Beyond Horizons:A Cultural Interpretation of Gish Jen's Works".Nanjing Normal University,2005.
刘海平,王守仁.新编美国文学史.第四卷.上海:上海外语教育出版社,2002.
蒲若茜.族裔经验与文化想象.北京:中国社会科学出版社,2006.
石平萍.悠游于东西文化的世界人—从《爱妾》看任璧莲的跨文化视角.世界文化,2008(6).
徐云耕译.多元文化主义语境下的当代华裔美国文学—美国华裔作家任碧莲访谈录.国外文学,1997(4).
朱刚.二十世纪西方文艺批评理论.上海:上海外语教育出版社,2001.
朱刚.二十世纪西方文论.北京:北京大学出版社,2006.
Net 1.Biography and Criticism on Gish Jen < http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/jen_gish.html>
Net 2.Media Reviews < http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1469>
Net 3:VanGaalen,Izaak."Under Easter Eyes." 2004< http://www.amazon.com/Occidentalism-West-Eyes-Its-Enemies/dp/1594200084>