论《华女阿五》的移民同化传记之不可靠叙述

On the Unreliability Narrative of Immigrant Assimilation Autobiography in The Fifth Chinese Daughter

《华女阿五》是一部在全美范围内引发广泛关注的、以同化叙事为范式的20世纪经典移民自传小说。从《华女阿五》传记文本的特殊性出发,通过对小说文本内外的不可靠叙述的分析,可以看出该文本展现出的移民同化过程并非历史真实,而是作者为了融入主流社会,达成属下发声的叙事策略。这一策略即是作家为移民辩护的主动选择,也是在主流话语压力下的被动服从。

The Fifth Chinese Daughter, a 20th century classical autobiographic novel about immigranon written narrative has attracted national interest across the U.S. This paper examines the unreliability narratives of the work from the perspectives of intratextuality and extratextuality. The results show that the smooth assimilation in The Fifth Chinese Daughter is a constructed discourse. Rather, it is a narrative strategy for the subjects to give voice to their opinions so as to integrate into the mainstream society. This strategy is an active choice made by the author in defense of immigrants, and passive obedience under the pressure of mainstream discourse.