人物身份的视觉化——解读小说《酷爱》中的“画”

Visualization of the character’s identity: “Paintings” in Alameddine’s Koolaids

《酷爱》是美国黎巴嫩裔作家拉比·阿拉梅丁的第一部小说。小说中的“画”贯穿始终,是小说的中心意象。这些“画”以线性的方式勾勒出主人公童年经历战争、青年流亡美国和中年感染艾滋病的三段经历,分别表征了主人公被以色列和黎巴嫩共谋的主流文化压制的客体身份、被美国白人边缘化的他者身份以及被美国主流社会与文化排斥的同性恋边缘身份,它们共同揭示了主人公的悲惨命运,批判了以美国为代表的白人中心主义和霸权思想。

Koolaids is the first novel written by American Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine.Depicted as the central image of the novel,“paintings”linearly outline the protagonist’s experiences in three stages,which are his childhood exposure to wars,youth exile in the United States,and middle-aged HIV infection.These experiences respectively represent the protagonist’s objectified identity of being suppressed by the mainstream culture conspired by Israel and Lebanon,otherized identity of being discriminated by white Americans,and marginalized identity of being excluded as a homosexual from American society.“Paintings”in the novel reveal the protagonist’s tragic fate and criticize white-centrism and hegemony which are represented by the United States.