游走于虚构与现实间的叙事策略——汤亭亭《中国佬》的新历史主义解读

Narrative Strategy: Between Fiction and Fact —A New Historicist Reading of Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men

本文选取著名华裔美国女作家汤亭亭的《中国佬》"中国来的父亲"一章中有关其父亲不同的入美方式,结合当时华人移民美国的历史背景,运用新历史主义的主要观点,即文本与历史互相交错、互相依存的关系,分析作者在处理父亲入美的虚构与现实之间所做的努力以及此叙事策略的动机、目的和意义之所在。

The essay selects some fragments from ＂The Father from China＂ in Maxine Hong Kinston＇ s China Men to explore the relationship between the various versions of Father＇s immigration to America and different immigration ways of early Chinese American. From the viewpoints of the New Historicists, i.e. the relationship between text and history, this essay aims to analyze Kingston＇s narrative strategy in terms of fiction and fact about Father＇s immigration to America and its motivation and significance.