世界中的家园——论奈保尔的《抵达之谜》

The Reconstruction of Cultural Identity in Naipaul's——The Enigma of Arrival

在2001年诺贝尔文学奖得主维.苏.奈保尔的小说《抵达之谜》中,一个具有双重移民背景的叙事人"我"从特立尼达踏上寻求自己文化家园的旅程。在经历了现实与理想的一系列碰撞之后,"我"的主体意识慢慢觉醒,逐渐从一个被殖民教育异化了的人回归自我,并最终使自己获得了自觉的流散视角,从而在异域性当中确定了自己的身份,在超民族的维度中找到了自己的家园。

In 2001 Nobel Prize winner Naipaul＇s The Enigma of Arrival, a narrator with double-immigration background set off from Trinidad for England in search of his cultural identity. After having experienced disillusioning clashes between the England he was told and the England in reality, he started re-examining colonialism from a self-conscious diaspora perspective which enabled him to reconstruct his cultural identity in a homeland beyond nationality.