《奥斯卡·瓦奥短暂而奇妙的一生》的多重叙事与文化杂合

Multiple narrative and cultural hybridity in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

朱诺·迪亚斯是美国多米尼加裔代表作家,美国西语裔文学的领军人物,他在小说《奥斯卡·瓦奥短暂而奇妙的一生》中,形象地勾勒出一批身处异乡、在两种文化间艰难寻求身份平等的多米尼加裔群体。文化杂合是小说的显著特征,正文与脚注的互文使之成为叙事文学中的异类,真实还原了特鲁希略统治下独裁者与反对派之间的矛盾冲突,以及官方正史和流亡者个体记忆之间的高度对立。

Junor Díaz is a Dominican American writer and a leading figure in American Hispanics literature.In his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,the author vividly depicts a group of Dominicans who live abroad and struggle for equality of status between the two cultures.Cultural hybridity is a typical characteristic of the novel and the intertextuality of the text and the footnotes makes the novel an anomaly in the narrative literature.The two characteristics help to truly reproduce not only the conflicts between dictator and objectors under the control of Trujillo but also the deep opposition between official history and the personal memories of exiles.