《残月楼》的叙事策略与文化政治

Narrative Strategies and Cultural Politics in Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe

在代表作《残月楼》中,华裔加拿大作家李群英运用多种叙事策略实现其文化政治诉求:通过非线性叙事,并置自我与社群、过去与现在、男性与女性,引导读者思考加拿大华裔身份背后的"群体自我"和社区历史;而大量的叙述者干预成为作家彰显身份立场、构建当代华裔加拿大女性主体性的方式;叙述人称的转换则有助于讲述华裔社区历史,打破社群沉默,抗击加拿大历史上对华裔社区的不公正待遇。

In Disappearing Moon Cafe,Sky Lee employs various narrative strategies to serve her cultural political purposes.Through a nonlinear narrative,she juxtaposes the self and the collective,the past and the present,and male and female so that readers can have a better understanding of Chinese-Canadian identity and its connection with both the"collective self"and the community’s history.The abundant narratorial intrusion reveals Lee’s position and helps construct her subjectivity as a contemporary Chinese Canadian feminist.The switch from first-person to third-person narration,moreover,is conducive to telling the Chinese community’s history and breaking the community’s silence to resist historical and structural racism in Canadian society.