论澳洲小说家对《浮生六记》的文化误读

Cultural Misreading and Literary Variation:From Six Chapters of a Floating Life to The Red Thread

《红线》(The Red Thread,2000)是澳大利亚小说家尼古拉斯·周思(Nicholas Jose)致敬中国文学经典《浮生六记》的一部作品,因其"误读"中国文化而被指责充满了"东方主义话语"。本文以哈罗德·布鲁姆的互文理论为框架,分析《红线》对《浮生六记》的误读和修正过程;讨论跨文化小说的创作技巧、主题意义和跨文化作家的文化立场问题。

The Red Thread is an Australian novel inspired by a 19 th century Chinese literary classic. The intertextual relation between the two texts is self-evident for the story is embroidered with passages printed in red, quoted from the classic Chinese love story. The novel is well accepted in the west but is accused of an oriental discourse by Chinese critics for its misreading of Chinese culture. This paper takes a transcultural perspective and regards The Red Thread as a transcultural novel. In the light of Harold Bloom＇s intertextual theory, it analyses the rewriting process from Six Chapters of a Floating Life to The Red Thread and discusses the transcultural writing strategy, its thematic meaning and the cultural stand of the transcultural writer.