文化视野下的托尼·莫里森与莫言比较研究

A Comparative Study of Toni Morrison and Mo Yan from the Cultural Perspective

托尼·莫里森与莫言的文学创作注重对民间文学形式与内容的挖掘、利用和创新,体现了他们对民族文化的自信与张扬,并构筑了以民族文化为核心的精神家园。两位作家在对民族历史“可能性存在”的建构过程中,呈现了整个民族在特定历史时期整体的生存状况和普遍情绪,以文学为媒介形成了民族共同的文化记忆。通过民族精神家园与民族文化记忆的建构,两位作家表达了他们对民族理想人格的想象和冀望。以阅读为媒介,他们的文学建构必然会潜移默化地影响国民集体心理和集体人格的形成。

In literary creation,Toni Morrison and Mo Yan attach great importance to the excavation,utilization and innovation of the form and content of folk literature,embodying their self-confidence in national folk culture,thus creating a spiritual home taking national culture as the core.In the process of constructing the “possible existence” of national history,the two writers present the overall living conditions and common sentiments of the entire nation in a specific historical period,and form common cultural memories of the nation through the medium of literature.Through the construction of national spiritual home and the construction of national cultural memories,they express their imagination and hope for the national ideal personality.Based on the medium of reading,their literary construction will inevitably affect the formation of national collective psychology and collective personality.