摘要
伍慧明新作《向我来》讲述一个关于爱情与法律的故事,既涉及善恶报应的命题,忠诚与背叛的命题,又指涉特定社会环境中国家意识形态或文化观念之压迫性问题,它们构成了作品的"伦理结"。该小说的主题思想和艺术感染力一方面归功于对这个伦理结的描绘和解构,另一方面也归功于作者对特定历史语境进行的诗性再现。她将一个普通"唐人街"华裔移民的家庭悲剧转化为现代伦理困境的某种集中体现,从而表达了对美国化过程中血统世系与文化认同之关系的深刻见解。
Steer Toward Me by Fae Myenne Ng tells a sad story about love and law. It concerns not only issues about good and evil and their retribution, loyalty and betrayal, but also the oppressiveness of the State ideology or cultural value during a particular social environment, which form the ethical complex of this novel. Its thematic and artistic expressiveness derives from a construction and untying of this complex as well as the author＇s efforts in poetically recapturing a particular historical moment. Ng turns an ordinary Chinatown family tragedy into a poignant manifestation of modern ethical dilemma, and thereby displays her deep understanding of the relations between descent and consent in the process of Americanization.
出处
《英语研究》
2014年第4期20-24,共5页
English Studies
