移民文化身份认同——以扎迪·史密斯《白牙》为例

Immigrant cultural identity——Taking Zadie Smith’s "White Teeth" as an Example

《白牙》是英国移民女作家扎迪·史密斯的首部作品。小说涉及种族、宗教、基因工程、历史、文化等多个主题,讲述了来自不同种族与文化背景的三个家庭在移居国所面对的种族身份、民族身份、代际、语言、宗教、阶层等问题。本文以代际的变迁为脉络,分析多元文化背景下移民所面对的文化身份之困,以及如何在文化差异中找寻个体的归属感,并揭示了移民文化身份具有混杂性、多样性、非单一性。在异质文化中确证文化身份将成为散居者必经之路。

"White Teeth" is the British immigrant female writer Zadie Smith’s first work. The novel deals with many themes such as race, religion, genetic engineering, history and culture, etc. It tells about the issues of ethnic identity, ethnic identity, intergenerational, language, religion and class that three families from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds face in the country of immigration. Based on the changes of generations, this paper analyzes the difficulties of cultural identity faced by immigrants under the background of multi-culture, and how to find the sense of belonging in the cultural differences, and reveals that immigrants’ cultural identity is mixed, diverse and non-single. Confirming cultural identity in heterogeneous culture will become the only way for the diaspora.