在杂糅的世界旅行: 论露丝·尾关的《食肉之年》中的文化杂糅政治(英文)

Traveling through a"Hybrid"World: The Politics of Cultural Hybridity in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats

本文讨论了露丝·尾关的小说《食肉之年》所提出的诸多复杂的真实性观念,认为: 杂糅性乃是该小说所呈现的 21 世纪初期决定性的核心身份特征。基于一系列全球化理论,本文认为,这部小说提出了一些极其艰深难以回答的问题,即全球化时代的身份政治问题。从多个方面来看,小说的开放式结尾留下了很多空白,阐释空白正是本文的目标所在。

Discussing the problematical notions of authenticity that My Year of Meats raises, the author argues that hybridity is the central and defining feature the novel posits of identity in the early 21st century. Building on a mass of theories about globalization, the article maintains that the novel raises profoundly difficult questions--ones not easily answered--about identity politics in an age of globalization. In many ways, the open-endedness of this novel produces many blanks, and it is the goal of this article to fill at least some of those blanks.