美国华裔移民的心理创伤及其“美国梦”的幻灭——美国华裔作家伍慧明的小说《骨》之文化透视

Psychological Trauma of Chinese American Immigrants and Disillusionment of “American Dream”: the Cultural Perspective of Wu Huiming’s Novel Bone

成长一直是美国华裔文学的一个重要主题,即对哲学意义的“主体之谜”进行破解,对心理学上的自我作剖析,对社会、历史语境中的文化身份进行建构,最终实现他者到主体、边缘到中心的转化。小说《骨》以旧金山唐人街美国华裔梁家三代人辛酸的移民创伤为背景展开成长的故事。作品没有沿用传统小说基于时间维度展示人物成长过程的模式,而以贯穿着核心意象“骨”的空间置换推动叙事发展,选择边缘作为彻底开放的空间来反抗压迫,以此作为后殖民抵抗策略,在种族主义、东方主义到全球化等系列变化语境中再现美国华裔成长的真实和想象旅程。

Coming-of-age remains an important motif in Chinese American literature,with philosophic explanation of“subjectivity”,psychological analysis of“self”and cultural construction of identity in social and historical context for realization of subjectification of“the other”and centralization of marginality.Bone tells a growing-up story in the context of the traumas of three generations of Chinese American family in San Francisco’s China Town.The novel features the narrative development through space displacement with embodiment of the core image“bone”rather than the linear narrative of growing-up mode in traditional novels.Bone finally adopts the post-colonial resistance strategy to choose marginality as a space of radical openness against oppression to portray Chinese Americans’real-and-imagined growing-up journeys in the context of racism,orientalism and globalization.