语言·身份:论《中间的孩子们》中在日华人的伦理选择

Language and Identity: Chinese’s Ethical Selection in Japan in Children in the Middle

日华作家的越境书写是全球移民文学的重要组成部分,在日华人作家温又柔的小说《中间的孩子们》讲述了中日混血儿琴子的伦理身份困境,展现了在日华人的身份认同困境与自我拯救。利用文学伦理学批评分析该小说中“越境者”琴子确立“中间的孩子”身份认同的过程可以发现,主人公琴子探寻伦理身份的过程编织了小说的伦理线,其中“语言与身份的错位”是最突出的伦理结。研究以温又柔为代表的越境作家的创作有助于梳理移民文学的谱系,推动移民文学研究向纵深发展。期待日华作家能够正视历史,审视现实,以更多元的视角从事创作,发挥其在中日文化交流中的桥梁作用。

The cross-border writing of Chinese writers in Japan is an important part of global immigration literature. Chinese writers in Japan Wen Yuju’s novel Children in the Middle tells the ethical identity dilemma of the Chinese and Japanese mixed-race Kotoko. Children in the Middle shows the identity dilemma of Chinese in Japan and their self-salvation. Using ethical literary criticism to analyze the process of the “cross-border” Kotoko establishing the identity of the “child in the middle”in the novel,we can find that the protagonist Kotoko’s process of exploring ethical identity weaves the ethical line of the novel,in which the“dislocation of language and identity”is the most prominent ethical knot. The study of the works of the cross-border writers represented by Wen Yuju is helpful to sort out the pedigree of immigrant literature and promote the in-depth development of the study of immigrant literature. It is expected that Chinese writer in Japan can face up to history,examine reality,engage in creation from a more diversified perspective,and play their role as a bridge in cultural exchanges between China and Japan.