“内地”、“家”与“太虚幻境”——张爱玲《异乡记》中的“异乡”书写

Inland,Home and a Land of Fantasies:On Eileen Chang’s Writing of an Other Land in Her‘An Account of Foreign Land’

1946年的异乡之旅,不仅是张爱玲生涯中鲜有的中国乡村之行,也是其重要的情感之旅。《异乡记》通过"深入内地"、"回家来了"与"重到‘太虚幻境’"等叙事者对空间的不同体认与表述,提示了"异乡"的多维面相:既是作为城市与现代文明对立面的"他乡",又是承载着民族文化记忆的"原乡",同时也是叙事者内心隐秘所营构的"梦乡"。如此缝合了乡村经历、民族文化想象和个人情感记忆等多重叙事线索的异乡,构成了张爱玲文学版图上又一个意义非凡的座标。

Her journey inland in 1946 is not only Eileen Chang’s rare visit to the country but also an important journey of feeling.By going deeply inland,coming home and revisiting a land of fantasies,’An Account of Foreign Land’presents different views and expressions of the space,prompting the multi facets of an other land,which is an other land as opposed to the city and modern civilization,a homeland that carries a nation’s cultural memory and also a dreamland composed of the narrator’s inner secrets.Thus stitched together,the multiple narrative lines of rural experiences,national cultural imagination and individual emotional memories form a coordinate of extraordinary significance in the literary map of Eileen Chang.