华裔美国小说中的“唐人街”叙事

Studies of Overseas Chinese Literature

“唐人街”是诸多华裔美国小说文本中频繁出现的母题．并由此形成了华裔文学作品中挥之不去的感伤主义传统。由于美国政府“排华法”的实施。许多华人移民是通过非法手段入境的，一个个看来波澜不惊的华裔家庭却是秘密重重。唐人街内部的帮派纠葛、权利倾轧加深了唐人街的晦暗和神秘。与此同时．唐人街可以说是中国传统文化的微缩盆景．保留了许多中国大陆的古老习俗．甚至非常落后的文化传统。生活在唐人社区的华裔后代。处于族群、家庭的压力之下．时时有着要“逃出唐人街”的冲动．要到唐人街之外去找寻自己的“希望之乡”。华裔后代们成长的过程就成了叛逆的过程、出逃的过程。这样的主题，在雷庭招的《吃碗茶》（Eat A Bowl of Tea，1961），汤亭亭的《女勇士》、赵健秀的《唐老鸭》（Donald Duk．1991）、《甘加丁之路》（Ginga Diu Highwav．19941以及新一代华裔作家伍慧明（Fae Myenne Ng）的《骨》（Bone，1993）、吴梅的《裸体吃中餐》（Eating Chinese Food Naked，1998）中体现得非常明显。

Studies of overseas Chinese literature, as a new academic field which emerged in 1980s have been developing gradually with the literature of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao as its bridge. We have 3 articles published. RAO Peng-zi＇s The Significance of Comparative Literature in Overseas Chinese Literature discusses the spurring role of overseas Chinese literature to the related disciplines from a trans-disciplinary perspective, and plays a very active part in such aspects as supplying a brand-new object and space of research for comparative literature The Cultural Attribute and Cultural Identity： An interpretation of a New Pattern of Overseas Chinese Literature by WANG Ruen-hua elaborates South-eastern culture from a cultural perspective. The author talks about his reflections on Sino-foreign cultural exchanges and expounds another type of＂Chinese culture＂ estabhshed by the Chinese over the areas of periphery outside China. PU Ruo-qian＇s The Narration of ＂China Towns＂ in the Fiction of Americans of Chinese Origin is an analysis of the narration of ＂China Towns＂. From the early others-oriented narration and the pursuit for the perceptiveness of Americans of Chinese origin to their second generation＇s various kinds of appeal for escaping from or clinging to the Towns, the difficulties of the attempts to break though the ＂glass ceiling＂ of the Chinese Americans, who are of a weak and small ethnic group, has been expressed fully in the context of the condescendingly powerful mainstream American culture.