《芒果街上的小屋》的空间表征与身份建构

Representation of Space and Construction of Identity in The House on Mango Street

奇卡纳作家桑德拉·希斯内罗丝在《芒果街上的小屋》中探索了美国拉美裔族群的集体身份和族裔女性的性别身份,空间在作家对身份的探索中具有明显的现实性和政治性。作家以芒果街这一社会空间为背景,揭示了不同强势集团的空间表征,从而表现出空间在身份建构中的重要性。拉美裔女性作家要完成族裔身份和性别身份的双重建构,就必须颠覆表征着对立与压迫的空间话语体系。

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros probes into Latino Americans＇ collective identity and Latinas＇ gender identity, where space is treated as a dynamic with its own realistic and political orientation in identity construction. With Mango Street as its setting, the work illustrates the representation of space by various dominant groups to reveal the mechanism of space in identity construction. In order to construct their ethnic and gender identity, Latina women writers such as Cisneros attempt to subvert the mainstream space discourse that has led to social confrontation and oppression.