严歌苓:历史重述与性别乌托邦

Yan Geling—a Writer as Restatement of History and Gender Utopia

严歌苓在近年来的"中国叙事"中,对政治意识的疏离,使她有意识地选择了从人性角度来构建其历史伦理。她以女性的生存史、生命史、爱情史拆解"革命史"、"启蒙史"的叙事伦理,还原了"民间史"、"个人史"存在的合理性。她的"性别乌托邦"叙事也使历史与个人之间的巨大的裂隙得以缝合。对于摆脱意识形态的困境而言,严歌苓的历史重构与性别书写是成功的,但乌托邦叙事同时会产生另外一个问题,那就是对小说的丰富性与复杂性的伤害。而选择一个"说故事者"的身份,也使她的叙事产生了某种矛盾与游移。

Yan Geling has taken a conscious choice to build the history of ethics from the human point of view in her ＂Chi- nese narrative＂ works by alienation of political awareness. She continually dismantles narrative ethics of the ＂ revolutionary history＂ and ＂History of the Enlightenment＂ by the survival of women~ history, history of life and history of love so she re- stores the reasonable ＂folk history＂ and ＂personal history＂. She also sutures the huge fissure between history and personal by her ＂gender utopia＂ narrative. She is successful in being out of the ideological predicament by historical reconstructions and sex written but the utopian narrative injuries the richness and complexity of the novel. She chooses the identity of a ＂story- teller＂ narrative to produce some contradictions and wavering in her narrative.