成长的历程在于抗争——论陈若曦小说中的海外华人女性形象

Fighting Runs Through Growing Up——On Overseas Chinese Women's Images in Chen Ruoxi's Novels

陈若曦在20世纪80年代创作了优秀的长篇小说《突围》《远见》《二胡》和《纸婚》,通过婚恋与情爱故事探究海外华人女性的精神求索历程。在这类移民小说中,陈若曦塑造了一系列在中西文化冲击融会下艰难成长的华人女性形象,她们具有深厚的中国传统文化积淀,却又置身于美国那种需要独立拼搏的西方文化中,勇敢地放弃父权社会中的爱情与婚姻,选择有尊严的独立生活来抗争,从而达成自强,遂成为她笔下女性形象的鲜明特征。小说中她们从迷茫到自立的成长历程,也是她们在异国生存中的一种身份认同和文化认同的变化过程。这种身份认同,源于对中国传统文化的扬弃,进而达到融入异域环境;这种文化认同,源于对西方文化的包容,进而达到接纳,促进了个人自强,蕴含着作者独特的呼唤女性自主精神升华的关怀意识。

In the 1980s, Chen Ruoxi created a series of novels called Breakthrough, Vision, Er Hu and Paper Marriage to explore the overseas Chinese female spiritual world via stories on marriage and love. Chen created images of women struggling with culture shock as immigrants to the United States. Most had to abandon their patriarchal notions of love and marriage, and choose to live independently with dignity to so achieve self-reliance. This paper argues that such anidentity stemmed from discarding Chinese traditional culture to achieve integration into a more Western equivalent.