《望岩》中的文化身份建构研究

Study on the Cultural Identity Construction in Steer Toward Rock

继《骨》出版的15年后,美国华裔作家伍慧明再次以旧金山华人史为题材推出了第二部作品《望岩》,该小说取材于作者父亲的亲身经历,塑造了挣扎于身份认同桎梏的“纸生仔”形象,也重现了麦卡锡主义盛行之下“坦白计划”对美国华人群体造成的心灵创伤。以霍米·巴巴的混杂性理论为切入点,通过文本细读来剖析《望岩》中“纸生仔”的文化身份困境和建构,对文本中跨文化现象进行深入挖掘。

15 years after the publication of Bone,Fae Myenne Ng,Chinese-American writer published her second fiction Steer Toward Rock in 2008,which is based on San Francisco Chinese-American history and her father’s personal experience.This fiction portrays a“paper son”who was trapping in his self-identification during the McCarthy period,and reveals the trauma of Chinese-Americans left by McCarthy“Chinese Confession Program”.The paper takes Homi K.Bhabha’s hybridity theory as theoretical frame,and adopts close-reading as analytical approach to analyze the“paper son”’s cultural identity crisis and construction in Steer Toward Rock.Furthermore,the paper contributes to make a profound study on the cross-cultural phenomenon in the text of Steer Toward Rock,and provides a unique perspective to interpret what is cultural confidence.