《中国佬》中的华裔文化身份建构

A Study of the Construction of Chinese Cultural Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Man

汤亭亭在《中国佬》中大量嫁接中国传统历史故事,改写古典名著和神话故事中的典型人物,希望靠此努力来改变美国白人对华裔根深蒂固的偏见。她从美国华裔作家的角度出发,从中国文化这一维度找到中美文化交融的切入点。史诗因其恢宏的叙述风格和严密的神话体系,经常被新兴民族在兴起阶段用来确立其民族身份和认同。汤亭亭在《中国佬》中从当代美国华裔这一特殊的叙述角度出发,借助史诗表明其对建立华裔文化身份的重视和决心。

Kingston adopts a lot of traditional Chinese historical stories and rewrites some of the typical characters in classical masterpieces and fairy tales,hoping that this effort can change the deep-rooted prejudice against Chinese Americans among white Americans.She takes the perspective of a Amerian born Chinese writer and finds the breakthrough point of Sino-American cultural integration in the dimension of Chinese culture.The epic poem is often used by emerging nations to establish their national identity in their rising stage because of its magnificent narrative style and strict mythological system.Based on the unique feature of epic poems,Kingston shows her concern and determination to establish the cultural identity of Amerian born Chinese from the special narrative angle of contemporary Amerian born Chinese in China Men.