海底无边——论加拿大华裔作家李彦的华人叙事

The Deep Boundless:On the Chinese Canadian Writer Yan Li's Overseas Chinese Narration

当代写实主义小说也常吸纳新叙事法。李彦的《海底》擅长运用信息延宕或压制的断点,制造悬念侦探效果;采用现在时、过去时、将来时融合叙事法,穿插诗词,营造异度时空,再现华人在海内外文化撞击下的心灵交战;巧用叙事频率、伏笔铺垫等中外叙事妙法,增强故事韵律感。早期华文文学多为留学生文学,李彦开拓书写海外女性求职立足、自我赋权的奋争经历,捕捉海外华人的心灵焦虑,切准当下新问题。

The contemporary realism novels also absorb the new methods of narration. In the realism novel The Deep ,the writer Yan Li is good at setting breakpoints of information delay and suppression to bring out a detective effort. She uses some narrative methods to create a different space- time and represent the soul fighting between the east and west culture in the overseas Chinese＇ s heart, the narrative methods including merging the past tense, present tense and future tense together and interspersing poem among the full text. Yah Li uses Chinese and foreign narrative methods skillfully, such as the narrative frequency, hint, foreshadowing and so on, these narrative methods strengthening the work＇ s sense of rhythm. Early overseas Chinese literature is mainly made up of the literature of students abroad. Now Yan Li explores the new topic that unfolds women＇ s struggling experiences of searching jobs, establishing their self - empowerment. Yah Li captures the inner anxiety of the overseas Chinese, and pinpoints the present problems.