从空间角度解读扎迪·史密斯“伦敦三部曲”的可行性

On the Feasibility of Zadie Smith’s “London Trilogy”from Spatial Perspective

扎迪·史密斯是英国新一代最有影响力的作家之一,她生长的伦敦西北区正是她的“伦敦三部曲”——《白牙》《西北》和《摇摆时光》这三部小说中故事的发生背景地。随着“空间转向”的出现,在文学领域,空间成为了一个分析的主要范畴。在三部小说中,史密斯通过伦敦城市空间背后的权力操控,刻画出伦敦日益严峻的贫富差距及阶级分化。作为社会的产物,城市空间对多元文化背景下的个体以及群体产生了巨大影响。财富分布的不均则导致了少数族裔的边缘化,这种不公更是影响到个体身份认同。

Zadie Smith is one of the most influential writers of the new generation in England.The Northwest London area,where she grows up,is also the place where the stories of the“London Trilogy”—White Teeth,NW and Swing Time—happened.With the“spatial turn”,space has become a main category of analysis in literature.In the three novels,Smith depicts the increasingly severe gap between the rich and the poor and the class division in London under the power behind the urban space of London.As a product of social construction,urban space has a profound impact on individuals and groups under the multicultural background.The uneven distribution of resources in the space leads to the gradual marginalization.The injustice of urban space causes the deviation of individual identity.