“所有移民迁徙原因”——由《美国情人》看新移民小说的现代内涵与叙事创新

Root Causes for All Migration: On Contemporary Connotation and Narrative Innovation of New Migrant Novel from American Lover

新移民小说《美国情人》是一部书写自我及其自我实现的小说。它紧紧围绕现代移民迁徙的现代性内在动因,书写了新移民全新的价值追求。该小说对于新移民文学叙事的突出贡献在于:一是描述了当代新移民之所以"新"的内在精神底蕴和人类探险性品质,把移民书写从简单写实的经历及其历史反省书写转换到其心灵史和哲学的高度挖掘上,从而推进了新移民文学思想内涵的深入;二是展现了以家庭支离破碎、女权盛行、性自由、大众物欲膨胀和孤独的人群为特征的后现代语境——离散社会下一代女性新移民复杂的自我实现、心理追寻及其走向全球化的历程,从而使新移民文学审美内涵获得了提升;三是该小说的电影叙事模式的创造及其叙事意象(影像)的创设,既为新移民叙事传达知性化的深刻思想探索了全新路径,又为现代小说叙事艺术的发展提供了深刻提示。由《美国情人》可以充分了解新移民文学发展的独特动向和美学向度。

The new migrant novel American Lover focuses on modern immigrant intrinsic motivation and makes out a new value to the pursuit of new immigrants. It is obvious that this novel contributes greatly to new immigrant literary narrative as followings：Firstly,it describes ＂new＂ inner spiritual basis and characteristics of human adven- ture of migrant, and further improves novel narrative from realistic and factual description of immigrant experiences and reflection of history to investigation of interior and philosophy. In this way, it deepens the ideological content of new immigrant literature. Secondly, it exhibits postmodern context of a group people dominated by family separation, prevailing feminism, sexual freedom, the public materialism expansion and loneliness, i. e. , female migrate complex self - realization, psychological pursue, and efforts towards globalization in a separate society. Therefore, it improves aesthetic connotation of new immigrants literary. Thirdly, it combines the film narration with narrative images to explore new paths to convey not only the narrative of profound thought but also enlightenment for the development of contemporary narrative art. American Lover can be fully understood as its unique aesthetic dimension trends and literary development of new immigrants.