冷战时期的美国“地下”世界——德里罗《地下世界》的文化解读

The American "Under" World During the Cold War Era:A Cultural Reading of Delillo's Underworld

作为当今美国文坛一位重量级作家,唐.德里罗的作品几乎涉及到了二战以来美国社会的一切重大问题,展示了它"魔力与恐怖"并存的各种奇特景观。本文以其长篇小说《地下世界》为对象,选择性地考察了作为冷战时期美苏之间"我们—他们"逻辑前提之"美国"身份的虚假性,以及冷战期间迅速增长的垃圾与消费社会的深层关系,并展示了其中问题的复杂性和不确定性,开放了进一步研究的空间。

As one of the most prominent writers in contemporary American literature, Don Delillo in his works has covered almost all the important American social issues since the Second World War and exhibited in them a kaleidoscopic society of 'magic and dread'. Focusing on Underworld, this essay selectively studies the illusiveness of an American identity, which is the premise of the logic of Us versus Them between America and the Soviet Union during the Cold War era; it also exposes the profound relationship between garbage that rapidly increases and the consumer society. The complexity and uncertainty of these questions leave much for further study in this area.