赛珍珠传记作品《异邦客》中的家园政治观

The Politics of Home in Pearl S.Buck s The Exile

美国著名作家赛珍珠为其母亲创作的传记《异邦客》讲述了母亲凯丽被放逐的一生。作家将“家园”作为主题贯穿于全文,通过凯丽对美国故土的思念与回忆,展现其内心“处处无家处处家”的离散伤痛。《异邦客》中的家园,可以分为地域家园、文化家园和哲性家园三个层次,是对家园共同体的不同建构方式的思考,剖析“家园的缺席”对凯丽一生的影响,可以由此加深读者对赛珍珠家园政治观的认识。

The Exile is a biography written by Pearl S.Buck about her mother Caroline,describing her exile life.Buck used the theme,“home”,to thread the whole book,and through Caroline s missing and remembrance of her homeland,gave an expression to the sadness of dislocation.This paper analyzes“the politics of home”in The Exile from three aspects:geographic homeland,cultural homeland and philosophical homeland,and discusses the different ways of constructing homes and their political meanings as well as the impact of“absence from homes”on Caroline s life,offering a deep understanding about Buck s political view on home.