多元文化背景下的身份杂糅——扎迪·史密斯《白牙》中的家庭关系研究

Identity and Hybridity in the Multicultural Context ——Exploring family relations in Zadie Smith's White Teeth

英国当代女小说家扎迪·史密斯的处女作《白牙》,通过深入描写三个不同背景的英国家庭,涉及文化、种族、宗教等各不相同的人物,揭示英国伦敦多元文化的空间结构和身份杂糅的社会走向,反映不同种族的移民在战后、80年代以及90年代后期三个不同历史阶段的生活经历。作者运用诙谐的手法,表现了英国战后第二代移民对归属感与认同感的追求:寻求突破种族界限,主张文化与身份杂糅,在多元文化社会求得立身之地,拓展家庭内在生活和与外交往的空间结构。

White Teeth, a maiden work of British woman novelist Zadie Smith, reveals the spatial structures of multiculturalism and the social tendency of ethnic hybidity in the city of London, involving characters of different cultures, races and religions, and reflects the life experiences of various immigrants in three historical stages of post-war period, the 1980s and the late 1990s through in-depth description of three British families with different backgrounds. By applying the humourous technique, Zadie Smith presents that the second generation of British post-war immigrants develop a sense of belonging and identity, violate racial boundaries, assert the cultural hybridity and identity, seek a foothold in multicultural society, and expand the spatial structures of inter and intra family relations.