“母性”他者与东方“镜像”

(M)other and Orient Image

在西方的文化想象中,东方被预设为与之对立的“他者”,被动地参与西方塑造自我和认证自我的过程,并成为后者建构其主体性所需的“镜像”。美国华人作家严歌苓撰成长篇小说《扶桑》,书中男女主人公之间的感情纠葛却对以上的模式进行了种族和性别上的双重颠覆。本文借用拉康的镜像理论作为分析起点,对以上过程进行了较为深入的挖掘。

In the cultural presumption of the West, the Orient is assumed to be the ＂Other＂, in contrast to the West and is involved unwillingly in the process of self-modeling and cognition of the West, in which the Orient is set to be the ＂Mirror Image＂ when building up western subjectivity. In the novel of Fu Sang written by Yan Geling, a Chinese-born American writer, the emotional entanglement between the leading female and male characters double-subverted the above model in terms of race and gender. The essay made a in-depth study on that, taking Jacqes Lacan＇s ＂Mirror＂ theory as the main analyzing basis.