地方感:《太阳风暴》的环境想象

Sense of Locality--the Environmental Imagination in Solar Storms

“地方”已成为当代生态批评的核心范畴。美国印第安文学有着独特的地方观和生态观。本文以地方感为切入点,解读琳达·霍根的小说《太阳风暴》,探讨小说所体现的地方意识和环境意识。当代印第安人面临的环境危机和生存困境的根源在于地方感的缺失。在传统印第安土地文化观的观照下,人们意识到需要恢复人与地方的密切联系,实现自我身份认同。而地方感的建立又将促进人们形成对地方的忠诚感和责任感,自觉伸张环境正义以关爱和保护地方。

“Place”has become the core category of contemporary ecological criticism.American Indian literature has unique local views and ecological views.This paper attempts to explore the local consciousness and environmental consciousness reflected in the novel Solar Storms by Linda Hogan.The root cause of the environmental crisis and survival dilemma faced by modern Indians is the lack of the sense of place.In the view of traditional Indian land culture,people realize they need to restore and establish the intimate relationship between human and places and to gain self-identity.Moreover,the establishment of the sense of place will develop people’s sense of loyalty and sense of responsibility to the place,with which they will consciously uphold the environmental justice to care for and protect the place.