努鲁丁·法拉赫《地图》中的身份认同危机

Identity Crisis in Somalian Writer Nuruddin Farah’s Maps

索马里当代著名作家努鲁丁·法拉赫虽然在国外流亡多年,却始终关注并书写索马里人的身份问题。他的小说《地图》以二十世纪七十年代的欧加登战争为背景,展现了索马里孤儿阿斯卡尔的身份认同危机及其身份诉求与索马里民族、历史和政治之间错综复杂的关系。对法拉赫的身份书写动因和《地图》中阿斯卡尔的身份焦虑及其对索马里国家身份追寻的分析有助于探讨小说的身份认同危机主题。法拉赫的身份书写动因与索马里的战乱以及他在国外长期流亡的无根状态息息相关,他通过阿斯卡尔的身份危机反映了他本人对个人身份和索马里国家身份的追寻和渴望,表达了他对索马里局势的担忧和他对祖国统一的美好愿望。

As a famous contemporary Somalian writer,Nuruddin Farah though being in exile for many years,always focuses on and writes about the problem of Somali identity.With the Ogaden War in the 1970s as the setting of Maps,he has presented an orphan Askar’s identity anxiety and the complex relations of his appeals to identity with the national history,the state and politics in Somalia.Through analyzing the causes of Farah’s identity writing and Askar’s identity anxiety and his pursuit to the national identity of Somalia,this study is to explore the theme of identity crisis of the novel.The causes of Farah’s identity writing are closely related to the wars in Somalia and his long-term exile abroad.His own pursuit of and eagerness for his personal identity and Somali national identity has been reflected through Askar’s identity crisis and in this way he has expressed his worries to the situation of Somalia.While writing about the chaos in Somalia and his confusions,in his heart there is still hope of the unification and future of his state.