对身份和家园的追寻——后殖民批评视角下《落雪中》解析

A Search for Identity and Home An Analysis of In the Falling Snow from a Postcolonial Perspective

卡里尔·菲利普斯是当代英国著名的黑人移民作家之一。其代表作《落雪中》讲述了生活在英国的加勒比海裔黑人移民所面临的身份认同危机,以及对文化身份和家园的追寻。小说不仅再现了黑人移民面临的文化困境,更重要的是反映了作者对流散族群如何才能保持自身文化身份的思考。从后殖民批评视角分析小说中黑人移民及其后代所面临的失落感和文化上的无归属感,揭示黑人移民只有通过认可自己的民族文化才能成功构建自己的文化身份。

Caryl Phillips is one of the famous black immigrant writers in contemporary Britain. His representative novel In the Falling Snow describes the identity crisis of Caribbean immigrants in England,as well as their cultural identity and the pursuit for home. The novel not only reproduces the cultural dilemma faced by black British immigrants. More importantly,it also reflects the writer＇s pondering over the way for diaspora ethnic groups to maintain their cultural identity. By analyzing black immigrants and their descendants＇ sense of loss and of belonging nowhere in culture from the post- colonial perspective,it is revealed that only by identifying their own national culture can they succeed in establishing their cultural identities.