渐远的乡愁与渐近的美国梦——《上海女孩》中秦珍珠的创伤体验及身份建构

From Homesickness to the American Dream:The Traumatic Experience and Identity Construction of Pearl Qin in Shanghai Girls

与其他在美移民不同,邝丽莎笔下《上海女孩》中的主人公秦珍珠的身份建构过程充满着别样的艰难和困惑,这与她人生中经历的一系列创伤事件有关。这些事件给秦珍珠带来的创伤体验和她敏感、好强的个性密不可分。秦珍珠的种种创伤情绪交织在她自我同一性的重构过程中,她对生活和家人的态度呈现出矛盾和分裂的特点。最终,在姊妹篇《乔伊的梦想》中,随着珍珠中国之行的展开,她结束了对往事的沉溺,修复了同家人的关系,带着久违的美国梦飞回彼岸,完成了身份重建。

Different from other immigrations in the United States, the difficulties in the identity reconstruction process of Pearl Chin in Shanghai girls are highly associated with a series of traumatic events in her life and can be traced back to her sensitive and ambitious character, which leads to her contradictory attitude towards life and family members. Fortunately, with the trip back to China 20 years later in the companion volume Dreams of Joy, Pear Qin ends her nostalgia for the past time, restores her relationship with the family and accomplishes the reconstruction process of identity.