“失语”与“破寂”:解读《说母语者》中的美国少数族裔语言空间

Being silenced and breaking silence:An interpretation of the linguistic space of American minorities in Native Speaker

美国韩裔作家李昌来的《说母语者》通过再现少数族裔被消音和边缘化的不幸遭遇,揭示了美国白人宰制权力在非正义的语言空间里,如何将“纯正英语”作为种族与阶级区隔的工具,实现对少数族裔的空间暴力。小说所再现的多语共存的都市语言地景和少数族裔日常生活实践,挑战了纯正英语的霸权及其背后的宰制权力,确立了少数族裔自我言说的主体性,从而重构了多元异质的语言空间。

With the representation of the American minorities’sufferings of being silenced and marginalized,the Korean American writer Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker,reveals how the American white dominant power,in the unjust linguistic space,employs“authentic English”as a tool of racial and class segregation to impose spatial violence on the minorities.The multilingual urban linguistic landscape and the minorities’practice of daily life represented in the novel challenge the hegemony of“authentic English”and the dominant power behind it,thereby establishing the ethnic minorities’speaking subjectivity and the linguistic space manifesting heterogeneity and justice.