从“怀乡”到“望乡”——20世纪美国华文文学中故国情怀的变迁

From Longing for the Homeland to Reflecting on the Homeland——the Variances of Looking Back to the Homeland in the Chinese Language Literature in the United States of 20th Century

故国回望是20世纪海外华文文学中的常见主题,故国回望不同于乡愁,这是一种独特而复杂的移民情怀。一般来说,美国华文作家怀抱着以下三种不同的回望心态和情感:一、暂居者思乡归国,二、放逐者诀别家园,三、飞散者审视家园。在这一脉络的梳理中,我们可以看到不同的政治文化结构对作家的影响,以及作家自身的文化选择。

Looking back to the homeland is a familiar subject in overseas Chinese literature. We cannot take it simply as nostalgia but a kind of unique immigrant complex. This essay discusses three different immigrant emotions, which includes students abroad longing for homeland, exiles being aloof to homeland, and Diasporas reflecting on the homeland. From this study, we can see different cultural choices of individual writers under different political and cultural influences.