全球化与帝国空间建构——解读《橘子回归线》中的空间非正义

Globalization and the Construction of Imperial Space:A Reading of Spatial Injustice in Tropic of Orange

以美国日裔作家山下凯伦的《橘子回归线》为文本范例,借鉴已有和新兴的空间理论并结合“帝国”“全球主义”“跨国移动”等后殖民主义论述,对文本中基于民族/国家的边界控制、种族/阶级的都市空间区隔而建构的非正义空间进行解读,剖析了文本中美国统摄全球政治和经济脉络下的南北不平衡以及帝国内部基于种族/阶级区隔而致的贫富分化、社会不公的空间再现,揭示了美帝国权力意志所主导的全球化实质上与帝国权力形成共谋,令帝国特权以及空间结构优势在全球范围内深入发展的真相,从而质疑与挑战了全球化所标榜的“进步与共同繁荣”的神话。

By drawing on established and emergent theories about space,as well as insights from the postcolonial discourses of“empire”,“globalism”,“transnational mobility”,this paper interprets the spatial injustice constructed by the boundary control based on the nation/state and the spatial division of race/class in Japanese American writer Karen Yamashita's Tropic of Orange.The paper analyzes representations of space which are embodied through the North-South imbalance in the global political and economic context,as well as the social injustice of the rich-poor polarization caused by race/class division within the empire,thereby revealing the fact that the globalization dominated by the United States actually forms a conspiracy with imperial power which consolidates its imperial privilege and spatial advantage,and challenging the myth of progress and common prosperity claimed by globalization.