大江健三郎文学中的美洲日裔形象

The Bewilderment of Identity: The Images of Japanese Americans in Oe Kenzaburo's Literature

大江健三郎在其多部文学作品中描绘了美洲日裔形象。追寻日本民族的美德——斯巴达精神在美洲日裔群体中的流变是大江文学表现自身日本文化认同的方式之一。然而,大江文学用文化认同的方式拉近美洲日裔群体与日本人距离的努力却是徒劳的。这是因为,太平洋战争的历史已经在日裔群体身上留下了难以抹去的印记,并由此导致这两个群体在民族认同的问题上分道扬镳。文学终归是现实的反映,大江文学亦不例外。于是,在进入20世纪九十年代之后,探索美洲日裔民族认同的主题便在大江健三郎的文学世界中销声匿迹了。

The Japanese writer Oe Kenzaburo has described the images of Japanese Americans in many of his novels. To search for the Japanese virtue—the Spartan spirit and its transformation in Japanese Americans, is one way in which Oe＇s literature presents its identity of Japanese culture. Nevertheless, the cultural identity seems not to be attractive any longer and the efforts that Oe＇s literature has made to draw closer Japanese Americans and Japanese are futile. That＇s because the Pacific War has left the mark which cannot be easily wiped out and this fact has also led these two groups to go their separate ways. Generally speaking, literature should be a reflection of the reality and Oe＇s literature is no exception to this rule. Subsequently, from the 1990 s the theme of the national identity of Japanese Americans disappeared completely from the literary world of Oe＇s.