美国南方大家族的日常生活实践与身份困境——以韦尔蒂《三角洲婚礼》为例

The Practices of Everyday Life and the Predicament of Identity of the Large Family of the Southern United States—— An Analysis of Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding

《三角洲婚礼》是美国著名女作家尤多拉·韦尔蒂的首部长篇小说。小说中费尔柴尔德人的日常生活实践既是他们群体共建家族身份的工具,也是其个人建构个体身份的途径。日常生活实践具象化了他们面临的种种身份困境,即家族身份困境、外来融入者身份困境以及局内者身份困境。这些身份困境预告了南方种植园大家族的没落和现代疏离型人际关系社会的到来。

Delta Wedding is the first novel written by Eudora Welty,a famous American writer.In the novel,the practice of everyday life of the members of the Fairchilds is not only a tool for them to build their family identity as a group,but also a way to construct their personal identity as an individual.The practice of everyday life plays a role in concertizing the predicaments of identity at various levels faced by the members of the Fairchilds,that is to say,the predicament of family identity,the predicament of the assimilated and accepted outsider,and the predicament of the insider of the Fairchilds.Those predicaments of identity predict the decline of the large family of the Southern plantation and the advent of the modern society with its alienated interpersonal relationship.