汤亭亭《中国佬》之男性形象探究

Exploration on the male image in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Man

华裔文学是华裔作家在特定社会生活环境下,对于现实生活开展的文学反思。汤亭亭《中国佬》在创作过程中,有着特定的社会现实背景,在小说的情节构造中,通过鲁滨逊、游魂、契约儿子等众多男性形象,刻画了垦荒者、被歧视者、被阉割的不同类型的男性形象。特定类型的男性形象塑造手法,对于理解当时美国社会的华人生活具有重要的文化价值,不仅如此,对于现代文学创作同样可以起到很好的启示价值。

Chinese American literature is a literary reflection on the real life of Chinese Chinese writers in a specific social environment.In the process of Maxine Hong Kingston creating China Man,there was a specific social reality background,by creating such male images as Robinson, loitering spirit and son of the contract,the writer described several different types of male image as the settler,nigger and the gelded.The specific shaping method of male images is not only of great cultural value to understand the Chinese life in the American society at the time,but also can play a good inspiration for modern literary creation.