论《一个兼职印第安人绝对真实的日记》中的杂糅性身份

Hybrid Identity in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

美国印第安作家谢尔曼·阿莱克西的小说《一个兼职印第安人绝对真实的日记》讲述了印第安少年阿诺·祖灵从挣扎于印第安部落和白人社会的“苹果人”转变为兼容两种文化、实现自我发展的“游牧人”的身份探索故事。通过祖灵对于殖民话语的抵抗,阿莱克西否定了在后殖民空间建构本质主义文化身份的可行性,点出了其危害性。本质主义文化身份的狭隘使得建构杂糅性身份刻不容缓,因而,该小说通过故事层面上异质文化的协商与叙述层面上杂糅性的策略呈现出祖灵身份建构过程中的地域、种族、语言、文化等方面的杂合,倾注了阿莱克西对全球化时代下印第安人文化身份建构问题的思考。

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,the novel of Native American Indian author Sherman Alexie,tells the identity discovery journey of a young Indian boy,Arnold Junior,who transforms from an“apple man”struggling between Indian reservation and white society to a“nomad”compatible with both cultures to achieve self-development.Through Junior's resistance to the colonial discourse,Alexie denies the feasibility of constructing an essentialist cultural identity in postcolonial space and points out its detriments.The narrow nature of essentialist cultural identity makes it imperative to construct a hybrid identity.Therefore,through the negotiation of heterogeneous cultures at the story level and the strategy of miscellany at the narrative level,the novel presents the fusion of place,race,language and culture in Junior's identity,which is infused with Alexie's thoughts on the construction of Native American Indian cultural identity in the age of globalization.