身份定位的文化归依:《莱拉》的地方诗学

Culturalization of Placing Identity: Place Poetics of Lila

地方身份表达了人与生存环境之间的关系,是一种区别自我与他者且有意识地进行主体评价的认知过程。美国当代女作家玛丽琳·罗宾逊的最新小说《莱拉》,延续其文学创作以性别视野作为关注人类生存的叙事方式,再现女性流浪主体的地方丧失,以感性经验建构地方身份,解构暴力物语的人性压制,将主体纳入加尔文教义为信仰核心的家园文化规训之中,书写以地方文化价值为依托的身份塑造与存在方式。

Place identity expresses the relationship between people and their living environment. It serves as a cognition process to distinguish self from others, and to conduct the conscious evaluation on the subject. Lila, the recently published novel by Marilynne Robinson, a renowned contemporary American writer, contin- ues her gender perspective as the way of focusing on human existence, represents the placeless vagrancy of the female subjects. The novel constructs the place - identity with perceptual experience, deconstructs the violent material suppression on human nature, and culturally reconstructs the place -identity and the way of existence with the core faith of Calvinism.