《娘惹与峇峇》中华人身份的迷失与重构

The Lost of Identity and Reconstruction:A Post-colonialist Reading of Nyonyas and Babas

方北方的《娘惹与峇峇》通过叙述马来西亚父、子、孙三代华人家庭从鼎盛走向衰落的过程,控诉了殖民主义文化对马来西亚华人的思想、文化所造成的严重毒害。在殖民文化影响下,以娘惹为代表的华族社会内部形成了畸形的、扭曲的殖民文化观,这种畸形殖民文化观念挤压并扭曲了华人本土文化。作为对殖民主义文化的反抗策略,小说展望通过加强华文文化教育,从而使华人摆脱殖民思想文化的牢笼。

Fang Beifang’s Nyonyas and Babas accuses the colonialism of its poisoning influence upon Malaysian Chinese thoughts and culture and criticizes the western colonialism. Under the sweeping influence of colonialism, Peranakans in Chinese society develop an internalized and twisted colonialist ideology, and the internalization of the colonialist ideology of Chinese Malaysians made Chinese culture so extruded and twisted that Chinese Malaysians completely forget their Chinese identity, becoming culturally rootless orphans suffer-ing aphasia. As a reaction against colonialism culture, the novel envisions a great revival of glorious Chinese culture and traditions by strengthening Chinese cultural education, so that the Chinese can liberate themselves from the colonial cage.