新哥特小说《女勇士》和《残月楼》中华裔女性的自我身份构建

On Women's Self-identity Construction in The Woman Warrior and Disappearing Moon Café from the Perspective of Gothic Tradition

《女勇士》和《残月楼》这两部华裔英语文学作品可以被归类为新哥特小说。两者都包含疯女人、家族秘密以及鬼这些哥特语汇,但同时又对哥特传统加以革新,以应对创伤、身份、历史、种族和性别问题。无论是华人,还是女性,在美国和加拿大的历史中都是被忽略的、沉默的群体,华裔女性更是面临种族歧视以及父权体制的双重压力,历经创伤。作为少数族裔华人女作家,李群英和汤婷婷不约而同地选择哥特体裁作为叙事形式,讲述家族史中女人的秘密,借助于书写恢复创伤,实现自我身份构建。

The Woman Warrior and Disappearing Moon Café,both written by Chinese American/Canadian women writers,fall into the category of New Gothic.They adopt traditional Gothic vocabulary such as mad woman,family secret and ghost,and reform the genre of Gothic to address the issues of trauma,identity,history,ethnicity and gender.Chinese as well as women were always silenced and marginalized groups in the history of North America.Consequently,Chinese American Women are confronted with and traumatized by double discriminations：one is racial discrimination from the dominant white,and the other from the patriarchy within the minority group.As minority women writers,both Sky Lee and Maxine Hong Kingston chose Gothic as their narrative form to disclose family secrets,whereby they have managed to recover from trauma and construct their self-identity.