何处是家园——三位美国加勒比女作家小说中的“回归”主题分析

Where is Homeland?——Analysis of the Theme of “Return” in Three Caribbean American Women Writers' Novels

本文旨在分析美国加勒比女作家珀尔·马歇尔、艾薇菊·丹提卡和胡丽安·阿尔瓦雷斯的小说《褐色姑娘,褐砖房》《息·望·忆》《加西亚家的女孩不再有口音》;通过阐述三部小说中的"回归"主题以揭示"家园"这一概念的复杂性:小说中的女主人公瑟琳娜、索菲和雅兰达远离加勒比故土而成长于美国;对她们而言,成长的过程亦是寻找家园的过程。然而,美国并不是加勒比移民真正的家园,至亲的祖国亦不是归依之处。因此,流散的加勒比移民在漂泊中不断地探寻得以归依的家园,而流散的加勒比女作家则在创作的过程中不断地探寻、重构家园。

This paper aims to analyze three Caribbean American women writers’ novels：Paule Marshall’ s Brown Girl, Brown-stones, Edwidge Danticat’ s Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Julia Alvarez’ s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. By expoun-ding the theme of “return” in these three works, this paper aims at revealing the complexity in the concept of“homeland.” The female protagonists in these three works—Selina, Sophie and Yoland—grew up in the United States and are away from their Car-ibbean nativelands;as for them, their coming-of-age is the home-seeking process. However, through their experiences, it seems that the United States is not Caribbean immigrants’ homeland and the beloved nativeland is not the place where they could return, either. Therefore, the diasporic Caribbean immigrants quest for a“homeland” where they may belong. And the diasporic Caribbe-an women writers are seeking and reconstructing homeland through their writings.