在多元文化语境中重新检视华美文学中的文化民族主义

Re-Examining Chinese American Literary Cultural Nationalism in the Context of Multiculturalism

本文将华美文学置于多元文化主义语境中,以文化价值观为核心,分析若干华美作品对中国文化和美国文化的态度,考察华美文化民族主义的流变,以期厘清华美文学的发展脉络。本文认为,华美文化民族主义并非铁板一块,而是有三种不同模态,分别表现为倾向同化主义、拥抱美国价值观、传承中国传统。

Situating Chinese American literature in the context of multiculturalism and taking cultural values as a touchstone, this paper analyzes selected Chinese American literary works in its relations to Chinese culture and American culture, in an attempt to outline the development of Chinese American literature. It is argued that Chinese American cultural nationalism is not monolithic. Instead it manifests in at least three different modes, namely a bend toward assimilation, an inclination to American cultural values, and an orientation toward Chinese tradition.