《砖巷》中伦敦城市的分群形态与社会生活共同体的建构

On Patterns of London Urban Subgroups and the Community of Social Life in Brick Lane

随着全球化进程的加快,伦敦传统城市的空间形态和机体功能正在消失。在城市空间中,不同居民群体或占据不同的区域,或被隔离在特定的地区,城市发展及其持续筛选与分化的过程中形成了众多的分群形态。同质性的都市共同体瓦解之后,引发了作为隐性的城市文化系统的社会成员的构成方式、种群关系以及社会阶层结构的变化。在《砖巷》中,莫妮卡·阿里从孟加拉裔移民视角出发,描写生活在聚居区移民面临的经济、身份、宗教和种族等方面的冲突问题。本文分析《砖巷》中伦敦城市由迁徙飘零的孟加拉人结成的社区共同纽带和在城市中生存下去的共同记忆,聚焦《砖巷》特定的落脚聚居空间、隐匿的社会秩序、社会流动的通道等方面,展现城市作为生活共同体的建构方式。

The city is not only a pure material fact divided by geographical units,but also a community of social life formed by human settlement.With the acceleration of globalization,the traditional spatial form and functions of London are disappearing.In the space of the city,different population groups occupy different areas or are isolated in specifc areas.With the development of the city,many subgroups have formed in the process of continuous urban screening and differentiation.After the disintegration of the homogeneous urban community,there have been changes to the composition of social members,relationships between populations,and the social structure of the recessive urban cultural system.In Brick Lane,written from the perspective of Bangladeshi immigrants,the British writer Monica Ali describes the conficts in economy,identity,religion and race faced by immigrants living in concentrated areas.This article analyzes the Bengali community’s common ties and common memories in the city of London,and focuses on the specifc settlement space,hidden social order and social fow channels in Brick Lane.The purpose is to investigate the organic construction mode of the city as a living community.