异托邦的权力之思:《唐人街内部》的空间隐喻

Thoughts of Power in a Dystopia:Spatial Metaphors in Interior Chinatown

华裔作家游朝凯在新作《唐人街内部》中,通过并置叙事模式交错构建了多个文本空间。参照福柯的“异托邦”和“微观权力”哲学理论,反思空间背后的权力关系,可以更深刻地揭示小说的空间隐喻:以白人男性为权力中心的美国主流社会,已经成功构建起一个针对亚裔群体的地理、话语、社会和心理等多层面的异托邦空间网络,并利用微观权力对之实施规训和自我规训。亚裔美国人需要重新定位自我身份空间,并联合其他少数族裔和边缘群体,以对整个规训权力体系产生影响。

In his new novel, Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu, a Chinese American writer, constructs a number of textual spaces in a narrative mode of juxtaposition. With reference to Foucault’s philosophical theory of dystopia and microphysics of power, and rethinking the power relationship behind the space, one can, on a deeper level, reveal the spatial metaphor in the novel: mainstream American society, with the power of white males as its centre, has successfully established a multileveled spatial network of dystopia in terms of geography, discourse, society and psychology, targeting specifically the Asian community while applying discipline and self discipline through the microphysics of power. On the other hand, Asian Americans need to reposition their space of self-identity and unite with other ethnic minorities and marginal groups in order to create an impact on the whole system of discipline.