杂交柑橘与杂糅身份:林露德传记小说研究

Hybrid Oranges and Hybrid Identity: The Study of McCunn's Autobiographical Fictions

美国华裔作家林露德的《千金》和《木鱼歌》这两部传记小说再现了19世纪美国华裔人物波莉、刘锦浓的生活经历。本文从杂糅的双重性入手研究这两部作品,提出传记小说的混搭形式与华裔杂糅身份相辅相成,传记小说以文史结合、虚实相间的形式再现华裔身份的杂糅性及其物质基础。波莉、刘锦浓不只被动受到生活环境的物质、社会、文化影响,他们还在改变自然环境、建造农场和果园以及抵制种族歧视的活动中形成了文化杂糅身份,将其家园作为这一杂糅身份的空间形式与社会表达。

Thousand Pieces of Gold and Wooden Fish Songs, written by the Chinese American writer Ruthanne Lum McCunn,represent the lives of Polly and Lue Gim Gong,two 19 th century Chinese Americans.This paper explores these two biographical fictions from the perspective of double hybridity,suggesting that the hybrid form of biographical fiction,weaving together history and fiction,facts and fabrication,matches with the hybrid identity of the Chinese Americans as well as its material grounding.Polly and Lue Gim Gong were not passively influenced by the material,social,cultural environment of their living place.Instead,they formed hybrid identity in the changing of natural environment,building farms and gardens,and fighting against racial prejudice.They also made their homestead as the spacial form and social expression of such a hybrid identity.