“他者”的面具政治——亚裔美国文学中的身份扮演与族裔主体性建构

Impersonation and Construction of Subjectivity in Asian American Literature

"身份扮演"是亚裔美国文学批评理论中一个新的理论关键词。从戏剧表演术语开始,"身份扮演"逐渐被政治化,成为社会权力运作的表征符号,更成为被霸权文化边缘化、他者化的弱势群体抗争的政治策略。在亚裔美国文学中,美国亚裔"他者"既以角色面具为掩护与恶劣的生存环境、不公的政治和文化制度作抗争,又在行使某种身份/角色的过程中改造、解构霸权文化对身份/角色的规定性话语,并在此过程中建构个体及族群的主体性。

＂Impersonation＂ is a new critical term in Asian American literary criticism. As a critical trope, it has gone through a process of politicalization and become a token of power manipulation, and moreover, a political strategy taken by marginalized subjects in their struggle against the unfriendly living environment, and the unfair political and cultural constitution. Through impersonating different personas, the ethnic ＂Other＂ in Asian American literature transforms and deconstructs the discourse of the hegemonic culture, with the aim of constructing the subjectivity of the individual self and the collective self.