崛起中的华裔加勒比海英语文学

The Growing Anglophone Chinese Caribbean Literature

在以往的加勒比海文学作品中出现很多唯利是图、压榨当地人的华人店主形象,20世纪80年代兴起的华裔加勒比海英语文学是对这一传统形象的改写和颠覆。华裔加勒比海英语文学的发展大致可以分为三个阶段。在第一阶段华裔加勒比海作家大都淡化自己的华裔背景,进入第二阶段后他们开始强调自己的华裔身份,关注加勒比海华人的生活,改写了华人店主作为剥削者的负面形象,但仍没有打破华人商店和店主这一传统模式,到了第三阶段华裔加勒比海英语文学作品开始描写其他身份的加勒比海华人,彻底颠覆了华人店主这一刻板形象。

In Caribbean literary works,the Chinese are often represented as shopkeepers preoccupied with money who exploit other Caribbean people.Anglophone Chinese Caribbean literature,which emerged in the 1980 s,revolts against this stereotype,and its development can be roughly divided into three stages.Although in the first stage Chinese Caribbean writers showed little interest in engaging issues of Chineseness,they started to highlight their ethnic identity and focus on Chinese Caribbean experience in the second stage,but still confined to the traditional role of the Chinese as shopkeepers.In the third stage,Chinese Caribbean literary works began to form other images of the Chinese,thus completely subverting stereotypical representations of Chinese subjects.