摘要
美国犹太作家切姆·波托克的小说《我是泥土》,是唯一一部描写战时韩国难民生活的美国朝鲜战争小说。这部小说虽说较真实地描写了韩国百姓的战争苦难,却依然未摆脱西方对东方"异国形象"塑造的模子。作者一方面将难民置于韩国逃难的战乱中,另一方面却借助西方的文化语境,把他们建构为理想化和妖魔化的"异国形象"。这些"异国形象"不仅反映了作者对本民族宗教文化的自我迷恋,同时也体现着作者"西优东劣"的思想定式。
The novel I AM the Clay, written by the American Jewish writer Chaim Potok, is considered to be the only one about Korean refugees among American novels of the Korean War. Though the description about Korean refugees' hard life during the war is mostly true, the creation of Korean refugee characters is still under the shade of the western model of exotic images of eastern people. On one hand, the author sets the refugees in the chaos of the Korean war; on the other hand, he creates them as the idealized and the demonized images within the context of western culture. These exotic images not only embody the author's infatuation for his own religious culture but also reflect the fixed western thinking of 'Western superiority and Eastern inferiority'.
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2011年第3期63-70,158,共8页
Foreign Literature
基金
韩国中央研究院国际"韩国学"基金项目(2007-R-77)
