北京:《红衣新娘》中被边缘化的一维乌托邦

Beijing: A Marginalized One-Dimensional Utopia in And the Bride Wore Red

英国当代作家露西·戈登的《红衣新娘》中女主人公戴利对北京的认识,可以从三个层面体现:去历史化的城市、乌托邦似的城市以及作为西方爱情故事中被边缘化的城市。通过对这三个方面呈现的"北京"形象进行细致的文本分析,探讨作者以此种方式描写北京的原因。故事中的北京是作者投射的再现形象,是作为这一西方罗曼司中被边缘化的布景出现,而非一个让读者(尤其是中国读者)有真实感的北京。

This essay undertakes a detailed textual analysis of And the Bride Wore Red by Lucy Gordon,a romance writer from Great Britain, to interpret the image of Beijing. At the narrative level of this Western romance story, this city is delineated from three perspectives： Beijing as a timeless city, as a utopia for the female protagonist Daley, and as a marginalized city. This essay further elaborates on the reasons for the author＇s description of Beijing in this manner. In the story, Beijing, endowed with a singularly traditional quality, is a projection of the author as an idealized but marginalized backdrop to this Western romantic story. Readers, especially those who are Chinese, can perceive no realistic sense of Beijing after reading this story.