在象征中触摸原乡——评美国华裔女作家张岚小说集《饥饿》

Touch Spiritual Homeland through Symbol——On Chinese American writer Lan Samantha Chang's Short Story Collection Hunger

身处边缘空间引发的身份焦虑,导致华裔作品对身份认同的关注。在美国华裔女作家张岚的小说集《饥饿》中,对原乡的向往诉诸对文化象征的想象和与文化象征的纠葛。在象征中触摸原乡,模糊且又顾虑重重,不过通过对原乡的象征性想象与叙述,身份追寻由焦虑升华为审美,从而实现了自我建构的诗性超越。

The anxiety targeted by the marginalized identity results in writer＇ s focus on the seeking of identity reorganization. In Hunger, a short story collection by Chinese American writer Lan Samantha Chang, the hunger for spiritual homeland resorts to the imagination of cultural symbol and the obsession with cultural symbol. It is quite vague and uneasy touching spiritual homeland through symbol. However, through the symbolic imagination and narration, identity seeking sublimates from anxiety to aesthetic perception, therefore, to reach the poetic surpass in self construction.