《岔路上消失的女人》的形象学反思

Reflections on the Imagology of The Lost Woman on the Fork

文学作品离不开形象的支撑,在比较文学的视野里,“形象”是各民族间想象的诠释。虹影的小说《岔路上消失的女人》中的两位主人公分别来自东西方不同的文化背景。笔者将从“形象”的塑造入手,结合虹影本人的跨文化背景,分析作家是如何借助马克这个西方观察者的目光去塑造东方他者林奈特的过程。借以反思东西方二者之间的权力关系、探讨在西方现代性语境之下的东方身份认同问题。

Literary works cannot be separated from the support of images.In the perspective of comparative literature,"image"is the interpretation of imagination among different nationalities.The two protagonists in Hong Ying’s novel The Lost Woman on the Fork are from different cultural backgrounds in the East and the West.Starting with the shaping of"image"and combining with Hong Ying’s cross-cultural background,the author will analyze how the writer uses Mark,a Western observer,to shape Linnett,the other image from the East.By reflecting the power relationship between the East and the West,this paper explores the problem of Eastern identity in the context of Western modernity.