摘要
《支那崽》中存在两种对立的空间,暴力是小说的主题,在两种空间中有不同的再表现方式,成为作者协商美国性、讨论美国价值,以及什么是美国人的手段。同时,空间与权力的关系,说明贫穷与阶级怎样成为形成华裔的种族认同与文化认同中的重要力量,揭示文化差异背后的阶级、种族因素。
I argue that two conflicting spaces exist in China Boy, and the uniformed means of power negotiation between the two spaces is violence. Violence is used both to produce the right body, and to define the essence of American culture, and Americanness. I also attempt to analyze how poverty and other class limitations contribute to Asian Americans＇ sense of being primarily culturally different, and cultural epistemologies popular in Chinese American literary studies may obscure the structural hierarchies of race and class.
关键词
空间生产
身体
暴力
规训
production of space body violence discipline
