"美国化"与石黑一雄的他者身份

Americanization and Kazuo Ishiguro's Identity as the Other

第二次世界大战后美国国家实力显著增长,英国和日本都深受"美国化"的影响,日裔英国移民作家石黑一雄在其三部小说中比较客观地展示了二战后美国对日本和英国的巨大影响,美国作为日本和英国共同的他者,在这两个国家受人仰视,两国国民、特别是年轻人欢迎本国被"美国化",美国享有风光无两的国际形象。透过美国这个共同的他者,这几部小说还透析出石黑一雄本人的他者身份:对自己精神原乡日本和生活家乡英国既亲近又远离的间离状态,展现出"第三空间"中的石黑一雄摇摆不定的身份归属感。

After WWII, both Britain and Japan were impacted by the rising power of the United States. The Japan-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro depicts the immense American inf luence in both Britain and Japan. The United States, the common other of Japan and Britain, was highly praised in both countries, and the young, especially, embraced Americanization. What is more, through their depiction of that common other, three novels by Kazuo Ishiguro reveal his own identity as one of those who have been othered. Ishiguro is greatly attached to his spiritual homeland, Japan, and feels alienated in his actual homeland, Britain, which indicates his uncertain identity as lingering in "the Third Space".