“我们的精神盟友”:英文期刊《企鹅新作品》的中国抗日战争书写

"Our spiritual allies":Writings of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the English literary magazine The Penguin New Writing

作为英国现代主义文学名刊,《企鹅新作品》将中国左翼作家引入英语世界,他们从难民、农民兵和官僚等形象谱系入手,再现抗日战争的多重面相,向西方读者描绘了一个真实的中国形象,其作品在世界文学空间内发挥了至为重要的国族叙事功能。《企鹅新作品》对抗战小说的译介显示了一种集体无意识层面的跨文化移情机制,刊物对战时中国形象建构的目的是服务于英国文化主体的投射性认同。抗战小说彰显的百折不挠的民族精神不仅使中国成为英国知识分子认同的“精神盟友”,亦是西方读者感佩的“遥远亚洲的伟大民族”。在《企鹅新作品》营造的文学公共领域内,中英作家因反法西斯战争而建构了一种想象的共同体。

As a famous English magazine of the modernist literature,The Penguin New Writing introduces Chinese left-wing writers to the English-speaking world.By focusing on the genealogies of images such as refugees,militia and bu-reaucrats,their works offer multiple representations of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggres-sion,presenting a truthful image of China to the Western readers while serving as an important nation-state narrative in the world literary space.The translation of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression short stories in The Penguin New Writing signifies the cultural transference on the level of collective unconsciousness.The con-struction of China's image aims to meet the need of projective identity on the part of the English cultural subject.The un-yielding national spirit represented by these stories not only makes China the"spiritual allies"identified by the English intellectuals,but"that great people far away in Asia"admired by the Western readers.In the literary public sphere crea-ted by The Penguin New Writing,both the Chinese and English writers build an imagined community through the Anti-Fascist War.