消费视域下《体育记者》对“南方文艺复兴”价值观的颠覆

《体育记者》讲述了消费视域下南方人巴斯克姆怎样漂泊异乡,借助商品消费获得感官满足和心灵依托,定位身份,在精彩纷呈的世界里触摸生活的质感和希望,以他的行为及所奉行的浅表思维、物质崇拜、享乐主义和活在当下的信条颠覆了＂南方文艺复兴＂注重历史的教育、启迪、身份定位作用,将故乡、家庭奉为精神皈依的价值观,彰显了其在新时代的陈旧与虚幻及被摈弃的必然。这在一定程度上体现了社会变迁的深刻,重塑了南方文学,使其从＂南方文艺复兴＂及以前崇尚精神、传统、真理的种植园、乡下、小镇话语转向强调物质、即时、浅表的城市、商品消费叙事。

The Sportswriter narrates Bascombe＇s exile and reliance on consumption for seeking sensory satisfaction and spiritual peace, defining individual identity and feeling the materiality of life in an exciting world. Through his superficial way of thinking, material worship, hedonism and the belief in living for now and here, the novel subverts the values represented by the Southern Renaissance in history, place and family and exposes their antiquatedness and insubstantiality in a consumption-oriented era. Such a change signals vicissitudes have profoundly transformed contemporary Southern life and its literature is shifting from an agrarian discourse of spirit, tradition and eternal truth to an urban and consumptive one of material, transience and surface.