论赛珍珠《我的几个世界》中的家园叙事及其身份认同

Home Narration and Personal Identity in Pearl S.Buck's My Several Worlds

由于特殊的生活经历和历史背景,赛珍珠的家园情感结构非常复杂。在自传《我的几个世界》中,赛珍珠叙述了对出生地西弗吉尼亚州以及成长地中国镇江这两个家园的特殊感情,同时,也阐述了自己回到美国后在青山农场建构一个融合中美文化特色的新家园的努力。这些家园叙事一方面展示了赛珍珠作为一个漂泊者独特的心路历程,另一方面也同时帮助我们更好地理解其复杂的身份认同以及诸多文学作品中的相关家园叙事。

Because of her special life experience and historical background,Pearl S.Buck has a very complicated feeling about home.In her autobiography My Several Worlds,she tells the special emotion about West Virginia,her birthplace,and Zhenjiang,China,where she grew up and lived for many years.Moreover,she also tells her efforts to build a new home on the Green Hills Farm,which combines the American culture with the Chinese one.These home narrations display her unique life course as a drifter,and helps us have a better understanding about her complicated identity and the home narration in her other literary works.