论严歌苓的抑郁症与文学创作

On Yan Geling's Depression and Her Literary Creation

疾病与文学自古就有着密不可分的潜在联系,近年疾病文学在学术研究领域逐渐被引起了重视。作为新时期移民小说代表人物的严歌苓,其抑郁症与文学创作也有着深层联系。文章从严歌苓抑郁症的起因探究,深入剖析抑郁症影响下的文本症状,同时指出了抑郁症之于严歌苓小说创作的独特价值。

Disease and literature have been closely and potentially related since time immemorial. In recent years sick literature has been receiving gradual attention in the field of academic studies. Despite the fact that Yan Geling is a representative of fiction as written by the new migrants, her depression and her literary creation are also linked at a deeper level. This paper explores the cause of her depression by rendering an in-depth analysis of the symptoms of her text under the influence of her depression while pointing to depression as of unique value to Yan Geling＇s fictional creation.