在流浪中成长——华裔美国小说《支那崽》评析

Growing in a Vagabond Life——Analysis of China Boy

《支那崽》描述了在美国多元文化和文化霸权并存的背景下,独特的流浪汉式的华裔主人公丁凯充满困惑与艰辛的成长经历,其中诸多仪式化的成长情节,再现了身处中美两种文化夹缝中的华裔美国人经历文化冲突和面临文化同化危机、遭遇种族和阶级歧视的边缘化境遇,揭示出华裔只有整合中西文化,自我救赎,自立自强,才能有效抵御文化霸权主义,赢得自我身份与尊严,建构独特而平等的华裔族性,开拓华裔文化发展的新空间。

China Boy depicts the special wander - like Chinese American hero, Dingkai＇ s initiation fraught with confusion and hardships as well as a series of ritualized stories in American multicuhural context , represents that Chinese American lost in cultural crevice of Sino-US, confronts with the danger of assimilation into American culture as well as racial and class discrimination, further re- vealing that Chinese American can win self - identity and dignity, construct Chinese American nationality distinct from American ma- instream society, initiate new space for Chinese American cuhure only through effective cultural integration of Sino-US, self - help , self-reliance and self-improvement.