美国犹太小说中的时间与空间

Time and Space in American Jewish Fiction

时间与空间是构建叙述世界基本思想框架的两个不可缺少的基本要素。对美国犹太作家而言,时间和空间则具有更为独特的意义:它们不仅反映了犹太人苦难的过去,而且还折射出他们当今的生存方式及思维方式。美国犹太作家在表现这些苦难历史或勾勒其思维方式和生存方式时,就十分注重运用时间与空间的独特叙述功能。本文拟通过分析美国犹太作家的一些经典小说,归纳、总结出美国犹太作家运用时间和空间这两个基本要素的一些具体策略,并拟通过这些分析,找出一些规律或曰类型或范式。

Time and space are two indispensible components of the basic conceptual framework for the construction of the narrative world. For American Jewish writers, time and space have a unique significance. They not only reflect the Jewish suffering in the past, but also refract the Jewish ways of existence. American Jewish writers attach great attention to the particular functions of time and space in the representation of their past misery, mindset and ways of life. The present paper attempts to generalize the basic strategies in their deployment of time and space through analyzing some canonized American Jewish novels and to find some basic paradigmatic models.