跨文化视阈的他者形象书写——赛珍珠姐妹笔下的近代镇江

The Creation of the Other Image from the Intercultural Perspective:An Image of Zhenjiang in Pearl's and Grace's World

作为在中国生活了几十年的美国人,赛氏姐妹具备了与同时代外国作家不一样的跨文化视阈。以赛氏姐妹的传记《异邦客》、《战斗的天使》、《我的中国世界》和《流亡者的女儿:赛珍珠传》为文本,采取细读的方法,我们发现,在她们自我文化身份的关照下,近代镇江成为一个富庶的水运港口城市,而其周边的农村世界则类如桃花源般井然有序并日渐由农耕社会向现代化社会过渡。

Based on the theory of the imagologie, this paper probes into the image of Zhenjiang in the literary world of the two sisters of Pearl S. Buck and Grace S. Yaukey. Their special life experience of living in China for many years as Americans endowed them with different intercultural perspective from that of the writers in the same period. It develops from the context of the biographies of The Exile, Fighting Angel Portrait of a Soul, My Several Worlds and The Exile＇s Daughter： A Biography of Pearl S. Buck. Under the reflection of their cultural identities, it turned out to be a rich port city while the countryside along the city was just like a fairyland, finally transferred from an agricultural city into a modern city with the introduction of western civilization.