困顿与求索--论奈保尔《格格不入的人》中桑托什文化身份的建构

Confusion and quest: The construction of Santosh's cultural identity in Naipaul's One Out of Many

"格格不入的人"是加勒比文学之父维·苏·奈保尔的短篇小说,描述来自孟买的主人公桑托什跟随雇主移居华盛顿后令人啼笑皆非的种种经历和遭遇。本文以文化身份为视角,采用文本细读和文献分析的方法,梳理并解读桑托什文化身份的危机、追寻以及重建的过程,以窥探"第三空间"的精神归属和文化身份流动性特征的现实意义。

One Out of Many is a short story by V. S. Naipaul,the Father of Caribbean literature. It describes various ironic experiences of the protagonist Santosh who follows his employer to immigrate to Washington from Bombay. From the perspective of cultural identity,this paper aims at interpreting the crisis,the pursuit and the reconstruction of Santosh's cultural identity by means of textual analysis and literature research so as to explore the practical significance of "the third space"and the fluidity of cultural identity.