从流散视角解读美国华裔女作家伍慧明的作品《骨》

A Diasporic Reading of a Female Chinese-American Fae Myenne Ng's Bone

在美国华裔文学中,"家"或"家园"是一个永恒的母题。对于流散群体来说,家代表归属,而身份认同的过程,也是寻找家园的过程。美国华裔女作家伍慧明的作品《骨》描述了固守传统的父辈华裔和新生代华裔对于故国和定居国之间"家"的不同理解,并且在家园文化消失后,他们如何建构自己的心灵家园。在白人强势文化的侵蚀下,第一、二代移民为自己寻找精神家园的梦想变得遥不可及。而以大女儿莱拉为代表的新生代华裔美国人则把想像中的家园建立在了民族文化记忆之中,在被主流社会边缘化的唐人街之外找到了属于华裔美国人自己的精神家园。

＂Home＂ and ＂motherland＂ is a permanent topic in Chinese American literature. To diasporas, home is identity while the process of identification is that of finding home. Fae Myenne＇s Bone depicts how the first, second and new generation of Chinese-Americans understand the different meanings of ＂home＂ and how they rebuild their spiritual home when their home and culture identity have disappeared. Due to the invasion of white-dominant culture, the dream of finding a spiritual home has become a luxury for emigrants of the first and second generation. The new generation of American Chinese, Leila being a representative, by placing their imaginary homeland in the memory of national culture, finds the spiritual home for themselves outside Chinatown.