严歌苓小说创作新的转型——以《补玉山居》为转折点

New Transformation of Yan Ge-ling’s Fiction——Taking Buyu Mountain House as the Turning Point

从军旅书写到移民叙述再到回望本土,严歌苓的小说创作呈现出阶段化的特征,她在历史书写和移民叙事方面成就显著。而阅读其近年来的作品,可以发现作者在小说创作上尝试进行转型,这种转型尤其体现在题材主题的变迁与两性形象的变化上,作者愈加关注现实,贴近大陆当代的生活,其作品中的人物形象,尤其是女性形象也从“神坛”走向“人间”,这种转型的背后的原因和影响是多样的,与之相对应的还有作家创作思想发生的一系列变化。

From military writing to immigrant narration to looking back to the native land, Yan Ge-ling’s novel creation shows the characteristic of stage. She has made remarkable achievements in historical writing and immigration narrative. However, reading her works in recent years, we can find that the author tries to make a transition in the creation of novels, which is especially reflected in the changes of themes and images of both sexes, and the author pays more attention to reality and is close to the contemporary life in China's Mainland. The characters in her works, especially women, also move from “the altar” to the “human world”. The reasons and influences behind this transformation are diverse, and correspondingly, there are also a series of changes in the author’s creative thinking.