《希望之乡的莫娜》中的身份建构与文化战

Identity Construction in Mona in the Promised Land and the American Culture Wars

在华裔美国作家任璧莲的小说《希望之乡的莫娜》中,父母及两个女儿选择了不同的美国化策略,他们在美国多元文化语境里的身份归属与重构体现了对多元文化主义的态度和立场。多元的美国化策略可视作任璧莲对20世纪90年代席卷美国社会的一场关于多元文化主义学术论争的回应,表达了作家对美国文化发展方向的思考。

In the novel Mona in the Promised Land by Chinese American writer Gish Jen, the parents and the two daughters choose discrepant identifications and strategies for Americanization,which reflect their attitudes to multiculturalism, and may be interpreted as Gish Jen＇s response to the American Culture Wars sweeping through America in the 1990s, and her concern over the direction of American cultural develop- ment.