瞻“前”顾“后”之悟——论谭恩美作品中的新原始主义元素

Tints of Neo-primitivism and Amy Tan's Works

对当代文学创作中的新原始主义元素和谭恩美的作品进行分析与探讨,揭示文学创作、尤其是少数族裔的女性文学创作与充满神话性的原始色彩元素的关系。谭恩美的作品灵活地在双重文化代码,即通常意义上的原始东方与摩登西方之间转换着。因此,在谭恩美的作品中,作家对不同文化的矛盾态度逐步彰显,新的美国神话在艺术的模糊效果上凸现,同时,这些作品在某种意义上给受现代文明与高科技熏染的读者带来了一些困惑、焦虑与新的思索。

The article makes an analysis on tints of Neo-primitivism and Amy Tan's works, which reveals the relation between literary creation, especially that of ethnic female writings, and the mythically primitive elements. Amy Tan's works code switch in the dual sides of cultural identities between the primitive oriental and the modern occidental. In her works, the author's culturally ambivalent attitude emerges, and the new American myths are reconstructed with the ambiguously aesthetic effects, while simultaneously, the works have to some extent brought forward some thought-provoking yet confusing questions for modern readers.