从生态批评的角度重读谭恩美的三部作品

Re-reading Three Novels by Amy Tan from the Perspective of Ecocriticism

处在环境危机时代,研究文学与自然环境的关系的生态批评应该得到更广泛的运用。本论文拟从生态批评的角度重读谭恩美的三部近期作品:《百种秘密感官》、《正骨师的女儿》和《拯救溺水鱼》。论文的讨论将围绕以下问题展开:在这些作品中自然是如何被呈现的?自然背景在小说的情节中起了什么作用?这些作品所表述的价值观与生态智慧是否一致?和种族、阶级、性别等一样,"地方"是否也应该成为一项新的批评类别?重读这三部作品可以发现,它们在选择场景方面显示了作者对有鲜明原生态特点的自然环境的浓厚兴趣,反映了作者的生态意识和生态智慧。

In an age of environmental crisis,ecocriticism which studies the relationship between literature and the physical environment should be more widely applied than it is now. This paper intends to reread the recent three novels by Amy Tan from the perspective of ecocriticism,The Hundred Secret Senses (1995),The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001) and Saving Fish from Drowning (2005). The discussion will try to address these questions which an ecocritic would ask:How is nature represented in Tan's three works? What role does the physical setting play in the plots of her novels? Are the values expressed in these works consistent with ecological wisdom? In addition to race,class and genre,should 'place' become a new critical category? Rereading the three works by Amy Tan,the author of the paper finds that the choice of place in these three recent novels shows the novelist's strong interest in physical settings characterized by natural primitivism. In these novels Amy Tan combines the representation of nature with the reflections on values with ecological awareness and ecological wisdom.