《河流,黑暗的灵》的生命意识与民族认同

On the Identification of Life Community in Bless Me,Ultima

被誉为“奇卡诺文学之父”的当代墨裔美国作家鲁道夫·安纳亚,致力于在文学创作中反映美西南的区域现实。安纳亚的代表作《河流,黑暗的灵》书写了一位墨裔男孩的成长故事,主题聚焦族裔个体与群体认同。小说反映了族群出于祖地的情感依附而建构地缘性的共同体,揭示了欧裔殖民的文化压制和信仰同化导致族群的认同焦虑,展现殖民暴力的表征和族群的分裂,旨在自然崇拜和生命共同体的认同中重构族群的凝聚力和精神归属。安纳亚的墨裔族性书写生动再现了美西南的族裔文化经验和区域社会现实。

Known as Father of Chicano literature,Rudolfo Anaya,a contemporary Chicano American writer,focuses on reflecting regional reality of American Southwest.In his masterpiece Bless Me,Ultima,he writes about the growth of Antonio,a Chicano boy,with the key theme of ethnic individual and group identification.The novel represents Chicano people’s attachment to ancestral land to construct community of locality,and reveals the identification anxieties incurred by European colonization and cultural assimilation,which lead to violence and division among ethnic community.The novel aims to reconstruct ethnic bond and spiritual belonging in the worship of nature to celebrate life community.Therefore,Anaya’s ethnicity writing vividly maps out the landscape of ethnic cultural experience and regional situation of American Southwest.