乡关何处:评迈克尔·翁达杰的小说创作

Identity and Anxiety: on Michael Ondaatje's Novels

本文以"认同"为视角考察迈克尔.翁达杰的小说创作,认为贯穿其作品始终的寻找主题不仅构成情节发展的动力,同时也暗含作者寻找自我身份的努力。对作者历时20年的4部作品进行分析后,提出作者认同的焦虑始终未曾消解。

Adopting “Identity” as a key word to examine the prose works of Michael Ondaatje, the paper finds out that “searching” in his novels not only plays the role of carrying out the plot, it also implies the efforts of locating himself in the postcolonial world. After analyzing the four books which cover a 20-year period, the paper argues that his anxiety of identity has never been dissolved.