文化镜像与华人身份建构——当代美国华裔文学中的文化问题

Cultural Images and the Chinese American's Cultural Identity——The Cultural Issues in Contemporary American Literature of Chinese Origin

当代美国华裔文学重点表现了中国文化这一"他者"如何融入美国语境的问题,表现了中国文化如何与美国文化的碰撞、纠葛和对话。在中国文化的镜像中,华裔得以照见自己的存在,在美国语境之中建构华人的文化身份。美国华裔在文学作品中呈现出中国文化的复杂和多元,一方面,这是由于他们自身所处的社会环境和社会地位不同,另一方面,这些作品中的中国文化书写和文化身份建构本身也是"一个产出的历史过程",呈现出一种动态的形势。

Modern American literature of chinese origin shows its origin in Chinese culture in its adoption of Chinese myths and folklores,and contact and tanglement between American and Chinese. Through direct translation or adaptation of Chinese myths and folklores , Chinese American writers insert cultural images in English narration. This insertion enlarges the symbolic meanings of the cultural images in modern american literature of chinese origin and reveals their cultural identity as well as the complex and dynamic integrity of Chinese and western contexts.