《阿米娜的声音》中的认知空间叙事

The Analysis of Cognitive Spatial Poetics in Amina’s Voice

在巴基斯坦裔美国女作家赫纳·坎的儿童小说《阿米娜的声音》中,作品的叙事淡化了时间的线索,呈现出一种空间性的叙事结构模式。文稿从认知空间诗学视角,通过物理空间、心理空间和社会空间解析美国少数族裔对于自我身份从迷茫、焦虑到正视和确认的心理认知变化过程,族裔民族归属感逐渐增强的过程,以及其在主流文化的冲击下呈现出的民族融合趋势的社会同化历程,从而揭示美国少数族裔只有正视自己的身份复杂性,加快阈界进程,才能构建新的身份属性,追求新的生活。

Amina’s Voice,a children’s book written by Hena Khan who is a Pakistani-American female author,tells the story with the spatial writing structure.It emphasizes the space where the story happens but not the time clue.From the perspective of Cognitive Spatial Poetics,this paper attempts to analyze the psychological and cognitive change of American minorities from a loss and anxiety of their self-identity to recognition and acceptance,the process that their ethnic belonging becomes enhanced and the process of social assimilation and minority integration under the impact of the mainstream culture in the following three spaces:physical space,psychological space and social space.In this way,this paper reveals that only by facing up to the complexity of their identity and accelerating the threshold process can American minorities construct new identities and pursue a new life.