“和我一起去流浪”和“我们回家吧”——论蒂姆·温顿《骑行者》中的家、身份与移动性

“Go Waltzing Matilda with Me”and“Let’s Go Home”:On Home,Identity and Mobility in Tim Winton’s The Riders

澳大利亚作家蒂姆·温顿的作品《骑行者》以旅行、追寻和错位的结果呈现新的空间和身份形式,从而确认了关于稳定、静止和单一位置的旧观念与经济变化、社会政治不确定性和文化多样性的全球时代之间的不匹配,阐释了固定的家、身份和流动性等概念。本文在家园和移民理论的背景下阅读这部小说,认为该小说在执着于家园概念的同时,以更灵活的方式改写了这一概念,打破了它与传统国家叙事的联系。

Australian writer Tim Winton’s novel The Riders presents new forms of space and identity as a result of travel,pursuit and dislocation,thus confrming the mismatch between old ideas of stability,stasis and a single location and a global age of economic change,socio-political uncertainty and cultural diversity.It revisits fxed notions of home and identity to explore mobility.Reading the novel in the context of theories about home and migration,this paper argues that Winton,while adhering to the notion of home,rewrites the concept in a more fexible way in order to break its ties with traditional national narratives.