林宝音小说《女仆》中的“神话母题”研究

Research into the‘Motif of Myth’in A Woman Servant,a Novel by Lin Baoyin(Catherine Lim)

新加坡华裔作家林宝音的长篇小说《女仆》在国际文坛具有广泛影响,但遗憾的是,评论界对小说中大量存在的华人传统文化习俗的研究仅停留在后殖民主义"凝视"的层面,对其中蕴含丰富的文化信息缺乏深入解析。本文以该小说中的"神话母题"为切入点,深入挖掘其原型,探讨小说"神话母题"与其他叙事要素之间的关联,以弥补当前研究之不足。

While A Woman Servant, a novel by Lin Baoyin, a Singaporean-Chinese writer, has an international impact, the world of criticism, regretfully, stops at the level of a post-colonial gaze in its research into the large number of existant traditional Chinese cultural practices without an in-depth analysis of the rich cultural information contained therein. With the＇ motif of myth＇ of her fiction as an entry point, this article intends to dig into its prototypes by exploring the link between the＇ motif of myth＇ and other narrative elements to make up for the lack of research therein.