再造“白求恩”——加拿大华文文学中的白求恩

Re-creating a ‘Bethune’: Bethune in Canadian-Chinese Literature

白求恩在中国的形象深刻地影响了一代青少年的成长,白求恩成为他们共同的精神之父。全球化流动中,中加文化深度互动。1990年代以来,白求恩档案的开放,以及加拿大相关研究史料、文学创作的引进与翻译,激活了作家以及读者蛰伏的情感记忆。加拿大华文作家李彦、薛忆沩以史家精神发掘了"另一个"白求恩。他们用文学书写重塑全球化时代的白求恩形象,探讨生命的存在之谜,真相与想象的悖论性存在,信仰与激情的另类价值。

His image in China has had such a profound impact on the growing up of a generation of the young that Bethune has become their common spiritual father. In the flow of globalization, Chinese and Canadian cultures have been interacting in depth. Since the beginning of the 1990 s, the access made available to the Bethune archive, the introduction to and translation of relevant research material and literary works in Canada, have activated feelings and memories lying dormant amongst readers and writers. With the spirit of a historian, Li Yan and Xue Yiwei, two Canadian-Chinese writers, have uncovered another Bethune. In literature, they produce and reshape the image of a Bethune in the age of globalization, exploring the mystery of living, the paradoxical existence of truth and imagination and the alternative values of belief and passion.