重塑华人新形象——试析汤亭亭《孙行者:他的伪书》中主人公阿新

Rebuilding the New Image of Chinese-American: An Analysis of Character of Ah Sing in Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

面对主流社会对她作品的种族主义误读,汤亭亭在她的第三本小说《孙行者:他的伪书》里塑造了一位反传统,反战,反种族歧视的华裔嬉皮士形象,用以挑战和颠覆丑陋的华人刻板形象。通过分析主人翁阿新是中国猴王,华人垮掉派和美国诗人瓦尔特.惠特曼三者精神的综合体,来表明华裔作家汤亭亭用她的作品向美国主流社会的种族主义宣战,指出不能仅以种族特征去界定一个人,人是可以跨越文化之间的界限的,因此种族主义的存在是错误的。

Confronted with cultural misreading from the American reviewers, Kingston depicts an anti - traditional, anti - war and anti - racism hero to pretest against the stereotyped image of Chinese - American in her third book Tripmaster Monkey： His Fake Book. By a thorough examination of the three aspects in the personality of the protagonist, that is, the present -day U.S.A. incarnation of Monkey King, the Chinese Beatnik and the spirit heir to Walt Whitman, the aim is to reveal that Kingston intends to declare to American mainstream society that it is not proper to define a person only by his or her ethnic features. People can go beyond the boundary between different cultures and there is no reason for racial discrimination.