美国亚当的田园主义情怀——读解菲利普·罗斯《美国牧歌》中的美国民族神话及其当代启示

The Pastoral Ideal of the American Adam: An Analysis of American National Myths in Philip Roth's American Pastoral and Their Enlightening Values in Contemporary America

在菲利普·罗斯1997年出版的《美国牧歌》中,"美国亚当"和"美国田园主义"的民族神话是贯穿小说文本内外的重要纽带。通过聚焦一位犹太裔"美国亚当"在20世纪60年代遭遇的家庭悲剧,小说讲述了亚当"纯真"的丧失和成熟,田园理想的破灭与坚守,以及美国田园主义情怀对现实的反思和改良意义。同时,小说以哀婉的笔调,冷静地审视了美国"大熔炉"概念中的白人盎格鲁-撒克逊新教同化及族裔性消弭的倾向,并反思了60年代新左派的主要立场和实现途径,这也为理解20世纪末美国多元文化主义策略和新保守主义政治思想提供了一种思路。

In Philip Roth's American Pastoral( 1997),the national myths of American Adam and American pastoralism serve as the significant motifs linking the literary text with America's social and cultural context. Focusing on a Jewish-American Adam's family tragedy in the 1960 s,American Pastoral recounts the loss as well as the subsequent maturity of Adamic innocence,the disruption as well as the persistence of the pastoral ideal,illustrating the value of American pastoralism in terms of its introspective and progressive connotations throughout American history.