论新华伤痕小说中的“小人物”形象——以尤琴《画眉鸟》为例

On the Image of “Small Potato” in the Trauma Novel of Chinese writers in Singapore——A Case Study of Thrushes written by YOU Qin

新加坡华文作家尤琴的《画眉鸟》塑造了一个典型的新加坡华人"小人物"阿顺的形象。就读华校的阿顺青年时参加左翼运动,中年时面临事业、理想、亲情的三重失落。"小人物"形象作为社会变革时期新华小说中普遍出现的阶段性人物,反映了伤痕时期新加坡华校、华文衰亡以及人物命运的变迁,也折射了新加坡华族身份认同在本土化和中国化之间的矛盾心态。

The novel Thrushes written by YOU Qin, a Chinese language writer in Singapore creates a typical ＂small potato＂, Ah Shun, among the Chinese people in Singapore. Ah Shun took part in the left-wing protest when he was young and studied at the Chinese school; during his middle age, he experienced three depressions of career, dream and family. As a common and periodic figure in the Chinese language novels in Singapore during the social reform, the image of ＂small potato＂ shows the changes of Chinese schools, the decline of Chinese language in Singapore and the fate of the characters, it also reflects the contradicted state of mind of the Chinese people in Singapore in the self-identity between localization and chinization in Singapore.