族裔文学的另类发声——温妮弗蕾德·伊顿《紫藤之恋》商业叙事策略研究

A Special Voicing of Ethnic Literature——The Commercial Narrative Strategy of Winnifred Eaton's The Wooing of Wistaria

温妮弗蕾德·伊顿以日本署名创作了包括《紫藤之恋》在内的一系列日本风格浪漫小说,在20世纪初美国现实主义文学环境中逆流而动,获得商业成功。伊顿捕捉流行文化元素,以"异己"文学手段将对种族、性别和社会的思考融入作品,策略性选择叙事立场,组织叙事要素,实现作者——文本——市场的有效互动。《紫藤之恋》的商业化叙事策略既是顺应美国文学消费主义发展的现实之举,也是少数族裔在主流文化中寻找自我定位和发声的内在要求。

Winnifred Eaton＇ s pseudonymous writings of Japanese-styled romance typified by The Wooing of Wistaria won a surprising commercial success in American realist writing ambience at the beginning of the 20th Century. Sensitive to elements of popular culture, Eaton strategically arranges her narrative stances with a full application of literary otherness so as to infuse her understanding of ethnicity, sexuality, and the society into the works, which facilitates the effective resonance among the writer, the texts and the market. The commercial narration of The Wooing of Wistaria reflects not only a consumerist trend in the turn-of-the-century American literature, but an endeavor of ethnic minority to orient and voice themselves in the mainstream culture.