塑型与反塑型中的流散文化建构——论卡里尔·菲利普斯的小说《渡河》

Construction of diaspora culture in fashioning and anti-fashioning:On Caryl Phillips' s Crossing the River

长篇小说《渡河》是英国黑人作家卡里尔·菲利普斯的代表作之一,该作品以其独特的艺术手法融汇了身处不同时代的非裔流散者以及流散活动相关者的生活、思想和感情。这些非裔流散者与流散活动相关者受到种族压迫和种族歧视的政治、经济、社会和文化机制的塑型作用,在流散文化建构中表现出不同程度的贬抑性。然而,他们从不同的源头获得反塑型的力量,并在反塑型的过程中直接地或间接地为流散文化的积极建构发挥了一定的建设性的作用,为流散者的最终救赎作出了贡献。

The novel Crossing the River is one of the representative works of the British black writer Caryl Phillips. This work encompasses the lives, thoughts and emotions of African people in diaspora and people related to the African diaspora who live in different eras. The political, economic, social and cultural mechanisms of racial oppression and racial discrimination exert fashioning effects upon these people, causing them to embody depreciating elements to different degrees in the construction of diaspora culture. Nevertheless, they acquire anti-fashioning force from different sources, and therefore they directly or indirectly, and to certain degrees, exercise constructive influences upon the positive construction of the diaspora culture, thereby making contributions to the final salvation of people in diaspora.