《橘子回归线》中后现代社会景观的流动性

The Fluid Landscape of Postmodern Society in Tropic of Orange

日裔美国作家山下凯伦的代表作《橘子回归线》凸显了后现代社会景观的流动性,这种流动性表现为多样的以及变化的景观。多样的景观取决于多元化的人群,变化的景观反映的则是景观的建构性。通过景观的流动性,山下凯伦揭示出后现代社会的特点,那就是人员的频繁流动,正是人们的流动让景观变得丰富多彩;而山下凯伦尤其赋予流动性以深意,期待人们不断塑造新的景观,最终能够建构一个多元和开放的空间。

In her representative work Tropic of Orange, the Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita highlights the fluidity of landscape in postmodern society. While the various postmodern landscapes are determined by diverse groups of people, the changing postmodern landscapes reflect their own constructedness. Through the fluidity of landscape, Yamashita reveals the characteristic mobility of people in postmodern society, which leads to an abundance of landscapes. She endows mobility with significance by expecting people to construct new landscapes and in turn to create a more diversified open space.